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2025 NFL draft
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2025 NFL draft

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The 2025 NFL draft was the 90th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft was held at Lambeau Field and its adjacent Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 24–26, 2025. The Tennessee Titans held the first overall pick and selected Cam Ward, a q…

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Shedeur Deion Sanders is an American professional football quarterback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football…

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Virginia Giuffre
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Virginia Louise Giuffre was an Australian and American advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most pro…

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On This Day

10 events
2012
International_Hydrographic_Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization abandoned South Korean-led 'attempts to rename the Sea of Japan.
2007
Bronze_Soldier_of_Tallinn
Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
1994
Nagoya_Airfield
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1989
April_26_Editorial
An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.
1989
Daulatpur–Saturia_tornado
A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.
1970
World_Intellectual_Property_Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
1958
Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad
Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
1944
World_War_II
World War II: U.S. Navy submarines began attacks on Japan's Take Ichi convoy as it sailed in waters between Taiwan and the Philippines, eventually sinking four vessels and killing more than 4,000 troops.
1941
Boris_Kidrič
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-resistance and political organization during World War II.
1933
Gestapo
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.

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