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2023 Cricket World Cup
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2023 Cricket World Cup

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The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup was the 13th edition of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted from 5 October to 19 November 2023 across ten venues in India. This was the fourth World Cup held…

Leo (2023 Indian film)
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Leo (2023 Indian film)
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Leo is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. Produced by Seven Screen Studio, …

Bobby Charlton
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Bobby Charlton
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Sir Robert Charlton was an English footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, left winger or centre-forward. Wide…

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On This Day

10 events
1994
Agreed_Framework
North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit the former's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two countries.
1994
Seoul
In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured).
1968
1968–1969_Japanese_university_protests
At the height of the Japanese university protests, protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and clashed violently with police.
1966
Spoil_tip
A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1959
Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
1944
World_War_II
World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: German soldiers massacred nearly 2,800 Serbs in Kragujevac in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the district of Gornji Milanovac.
1910
HMS_Niobe_(1897)
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1867
Medicine_Lodge_Treaty
The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal government and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
1858
Jacques_Offenbach
French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the music most associated with the can-can (audio featured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.

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