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2025-08-03

2025-08-03

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SummerSlam (2025)
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SummerSlam (2025)

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The 2025 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: New Jersey, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 38th annual SummerSlam and took place as a two-night event on Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, 2025, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jerse…

The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantasti…

Loni Anderson
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Loni Anderson
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Loni Kaye Anderson was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitco…

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On This Day

10 events
2009
Taurus_09
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
2005
Maaouya_Ould_Sid'Ahmed_Taya
Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
1997
Sky_Tower_(Auckland)
The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1977
Tandy_Corporation
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1975
Boeing_707
A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1971
Fighting_Dinosaurs
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
1940
World_War_II
World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
1936
African_Americans
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
1929
Jiddu_Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
1913
Wheatland,_California
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.

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