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Pam Bondi
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Pam Bondi

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Pamela Jo Bondi is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019.

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Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who has served as the 29th Unit…

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Linda Nolan
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Linda Mary Hudson was an Irish singer, actress, and television personality.

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On This Day

10 events
2009
US_Airways_Flight_1549
US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).
2001
First_Wikipedia_edit
The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
1991
Victoria_Cross_for_Australia
The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
1981
Police_procedural
The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
1975
UNITA
Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
1974
Dennis_Rader
American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
1970
Biafra
The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1967
Green_Bay_Packers
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
1962
Derveni_papyrus
The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
1951
Ilse_Koch
Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

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