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2024-02-23

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Casimir Funk

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Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912. He highlighted these "vital amines" as critical in fighting significant diseases such as pellagra and rickets, and his analysis influenced a major …

XXXTentacion

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

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024 TV series)

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Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American fantasy action-adventure television series developed by Albert Kim for Netflix…

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Cleopatra

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Lists of deaths by year

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G. Lasya Nanditha

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Elimination Chamber (2024)

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2021

February_2021_Ecuadorian_prison_riots

Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons, caused by gang rivalries, resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.

2017

Syrian_civil_war

Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.

2008

Northrop_B-2_Spirit

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash in U.S. Air Force history.

1987

SN_1987A

SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

1971

Vietnam_War

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese General Đỗ Cao Trí was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering Operation Lam Son 719.

1945

World_War_II

Second World War: An Allied bombing run on Pforzheim, Germany, killed approximately 31 percent of its population and destroyed about 83 percent of its buildings.

1945

Joe_Rosenthal

American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima, an image that was later reproduced on the Marine Corps War Memorial.

1944

1940–1944_insurgency_in_Chechnya

In response to an insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet Union began the forced deportation of the native Chechen and Ingush of North Caucasus.

1943

Cavan_Orphanage_fire

35 children and 1 adult employee were killed in a fire at an orphanage in the town of Cavan, Ireland.

1941

Plutonium

Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.