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2024-08-05

2024-08-05

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Armand Duplantis
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Armand Duplantis

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Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Duplantis holds the pole vaulting world record and is the winner of eight senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic champion, a three-time World outdoor champion and a three-time World indoor champion.

Sheikh Hasina
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Sheikh Hasina
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Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bangladeshi politician who served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and again f…

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
2015
United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
United States Environmental Protection Agency personnel accidentally caused a spillage (aftermath pictured) of 3 million gallons (11 million litres) of mine waste water and tailings trapped inside the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.
2012
Implosion_of_Radio_Network_House
Radio Network House (pictured), damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, becomes the first building to be demolished by implosion in New Zealand.
2012
White_supremacy
An American white supremacist carried out a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding four others.
2011
Juno_(spacecraft)
NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
1993
Wizards_of_the_Coast
Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game.
1984
Biman_Bangladesh_Airlines
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft crashed while attempting to land in Dhaka, killing 49 people in the deadliest aviation accident in Bangladeshi history.
1981
Ronald_Reagan
U.S. president Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse.
1973
University_of_Southwestern_Louisiana_basketball_scandal
Due to an athletics scandal, the National Collegiate Athletic Association applied the death penalty to the basketball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
1969
Lonesome_Cowboys_police_raid
Police raided a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of a Gay Liberation Front in that city.
1962
Marilyn_Monroe
American actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

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