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Saltburn (film)
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Saltburn (film)

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Saltburn is a 2023 black comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes f…

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Ch…

Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
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Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
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Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard was a 48-year-old woman who was found stabbed to death in her Springfield, Missouri, house…

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On This Day

10 events
2020
2019–2020_Spanish_government_formation
After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.
2012
Hot_air_balloon
A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.
2010
Nag_Hammadi
In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.
1993
History_of_Ghana
The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
1989
Ruhollah_Khomeini
Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
1989
FA_Cup
In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.
1979
People's_Army_of_Vietnam
The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1978
Iran_and_Red_and_Black_Colonization
An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
1955
Marian_Anderson
Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1948
Kentucky_Air_National_Guard
Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

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