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2024-08-23

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Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris

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Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. h…

Donald J. Harris
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Donald J. Harris
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Donald Jasper Harris, is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying…

Maya Harris
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Maya Harris
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Maya Lakshmi Harris is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer. Harris was one of three senior policy adv…

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On This Day

10 events
2011
Moment_magnitude_scale
A 5.8 MW earthquake struck the Piedmont region of Virginia, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history.
2006
Natascha_Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch (pictured), who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn after more than eight years in captivity.
1991
World_Wide_Web
The World Wide Web was opened to the public.
1989
Singing_Revolution
Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their desire for independence.
1960
Congo_Crisis
Congo Crisis: In order to stop the secession of South Kasai from the Republic of Congo, Armée Nationale Congolaise forces launched an invasion of South Kasai.
1954
Cruise_of_the_Kings
The Cruise of the Kings, a royal cruise organised by the Queen Consort of Greece, Frederica of Hanover, departed from Marseille, France.
1943
World_War_II
Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
1939
Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (pictured), a ten-year mutual non-aggression treaty, which also secretly divided northern and eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
1933
1933_Chesapeake–Potomac_hurricane
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
1914
World_War_I
In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force engaged German troops in Mons, Belgium.

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