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Oppenheimer (film)
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Oppenheimer (film)

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Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird a…

Barbie (film)
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Barbie (film)
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Barbie is a 2023 satirical fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with her husband, No…

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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Al…

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On This Day

10 events
1998
1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.
1987
Lynne_Cox
Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
1985
White_House_Farm_murders
Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.
1970
Jonathan_P._Jackson
Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, resulting in the deaths of judge Harold Haley and three others.
1955
Hurricane_Diane
Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.
1946
Turkish_straits
The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish straits no longer represented the security interests of its fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis.
1944
IBM
IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
1942
World_War_II
World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi (pictured), Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
1914
Battle_of_Mulhouse
The Battle of Mulhouse began with France's first attack of World War I in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the region of Alsace from Germany.
1909
Alice_Huyler_Ramsey
Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.

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