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2023-08-20

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Sean O'Malley (fighter)
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Sean O'Malley (fighter)

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Sean Daniel O'Malley is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Bantamweight Champion. As of December 9, 2025, he is #3 in the UFC bantamweight rankings.

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Inter Miami CF
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Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami, commonly referred to as Inter Miami, is an American professional soccer club based i…

UFC 292
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UFC 292
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UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took p…

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On This Day

10 events
2018
Silent_Sam
Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.
2008
Spanair_Flight_5022
Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people.
1998
Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory
The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory (pictured) in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 U.S. embassy bombings.
1989
Dredging
After colliding with the dredger Bowbelle on the River Thames in London, the pleasure boat Marchioness sank in thirty seconds, killing 51 people.
1989
O-Bahn_Busway
The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia, was finished, completing at the time the world's longest and fastest guided busway, with buses (example pictured) travelling 12 km (7.5 mi) at speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph).
1988
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a bus carrying British Army soldiers in Northern Ireland, killing eight of them and wounding twenty-eight.
1988
Yellowstone_National_Park
Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park ravaged more than 150,000 acres (610 km2) on the single worst day of the conflagration.
1950
Korean_War
Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
1920
National_Football_League
The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded.
1910
Washington_(state)
Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.

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