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2024-08-02

2024-08-02

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Imane Khelif
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Imane Khelif

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Imane Khelif is an Algerian professional boxer who won the women's welterweight gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She made her international debut at 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, competing in both the lightweight and welterweight categories, and later reached the quarterfinals of the women's ligh…

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Simone Biles
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Simone Arianne Biles Owens is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make …

2024 Summer Olympics
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2024 Summer Olympics
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The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, were an international m…

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On This Day

10 events
2007
Raúl_Iturriaga
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
1973
Summerland_disaster
A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1971
The_Who
The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
1947
1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident
Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1939
Leo_Szilard
Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1932
California_Institute_of_Technology
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1923
Calvin_Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
1920
Krishna_Lal_Adhikari
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.
1916
Austria-Hungary
An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
1914
Grand_Quartier_Général_(1914–1919)
The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

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