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Alexei Navalny
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Alexei Navalny

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Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.

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Madame Web (film)
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Madame Web is a 2024 American superhero film featuring the character from Marvel Comics. It is the fourth film in Sony's…

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XXXTentacion
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Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known professionally as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and recor…

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On This Day

10 events
2011
Arab_Spring
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.
1996
1996_Biak_earthquake
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 8.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) occurred in the New Guinea Trench, which generated a tsunami that killed 108 people.
1978
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a bombing of a restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.
1974
Bell_UH-1_Iroquois
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
1964
1964_Gabonese_coup_d'état
Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.
1959
Vanguard_2
Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
1944
World_War_II
World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.
1913
Armory_Show
The Armory Show (commemorative button pictured), the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
1904
Giacomo_Puccini
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.
1894
Rudolf_Diesel
Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute.

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