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UEFA Euro 2024
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The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024, was the 17th U…

Jude Bellingham
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Jude Victor William Bellingham is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Mad…

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On This Day

10 events
2016
Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
2012
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
1997
The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom.
1972
English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
1963
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
1960
Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
1936
A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
1911
The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1904
Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
1883
In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.

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