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A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are typically presented as a list of hyperlinks accompanied by textual summaries and image…

Ryne Sandberg
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Ryne Sandberg
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Ryne Dee Sandberg, nicknamed "Ryno", was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played 16 seaso…

Ozzy Osbourne
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Ozzy Osbourne
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John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. Dubbed the "Prince of Darkness", …

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On This Day

10 events
1981
Wedding_of_Prince_Charles_and_Lady_Diana_Spencer
An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (combined coat of arms pictured) at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1954
The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.
1950
Korean_War
Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri.
1938
Essential_Commodities_Reserves_Act_1938
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential commodities in anticipation of war, received royal assent.
1921
Adolf_Hitler
Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
1914
Cape_Cod_Canal
The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis.
1914
River_monitor
The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor Bodrog on Serbian defences near Belgrade.
1911
Will_P._Brady
In a case later termed a "legal lynching", Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and death sentence against 15-year-old León Martínez Jr., five days after his arrest for killing a white woman.
1900
Gaetano_Bresci
Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
1818
Augustin-Jean_Fresnel
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.

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