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Rich Homie Quan
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Rich Homie Quan

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Dequantes Devontay Lamar, known professionally as Rich Homie Quan, was an American rapper. Beginning his career in 2011, Lamar first saw mainstream success with his 2013 single "Type of Way", which peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. His 2015 single, "Flex ", saw further success at number 26 on the chart. Alo…

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The Greatest of All Time
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The Greatest of All Time is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by …

Rebecca Cheptegei
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Rebecca Cheptegei
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Rebecca Cheptegei was a Ugandan cross country, long-distance and marathon runner, who was the national record holder in …

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10 events
2020
2020_California_wildfires
California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire (pictured), burning for 71 days and killing one firefighter.
1977
NASA
NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
1975
Squeaky_Fromme
Squeaky Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
1972
Palestinians
The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.
1970
1970_Italian_Grand_Prix
During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently became motor racing's only posthumous world champion.
1964
Hurricane_Cleo
Hurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages across the Caribbean and southeastern United States.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
1926
Dromcolliher
Forty-eight people died in a fire in a makeshift cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland.
1915
Zimmerwald_Conference
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
1915
Casablanca_Fair_of_1915
The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.

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