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2024-09-01

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Emma Navarro

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Emma Navarro is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 8 by the WTA, achieved on September 9, 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 93, achieved on August 12, 2024. Navarro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, and reached a major semifinal at the 2024 US Open.

Sol Bamba

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Souleymane "Sol" Bamba was a professional football player and manager. As a player, he was a centre-back. Born in France…

Indian Airlines Flight 814

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Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 Decembe…

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The Deliverance (film)

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Lists of deaths by year

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Kaos (TV series)

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Stree 2

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Ben Navarro

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On This Day

10 events

2019

Hurricane_Dorian

Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.

2000

Speakers'_Corner,_Singapore

Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.

1983

Interceptor_aircraft

A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.

1973

Irish_Sea

A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).

1972

Cold_War

In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion with his victory over Soviet Boris Spassky.

1969

Muammar_Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.

1967

1967_Arab_League_summit

At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".

1966

1966_Dayton_race_riot

Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.

1953

KARE_(TV)

Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.

1952

Ernest_Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.