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2025-08-24

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Lee Majors

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Harvey Lee Yeary, known professionally as Lee Majors, is an American actor. He portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley on the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin on the American television science-fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Se…

.xxx

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.xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The s…

Tommy Fleetwood

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Thomas Paul Fleetwood is an English professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. He has won eight ti…

Coolie (2025 film)

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Forbidden Door (2025)

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Lists of deaths by year

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On This Day

10 events

2006

International_Astronomical_Union

The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

1992

Hurricane_Andrew

Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United States in the 20th century, made landfall in southern Florida.

1966

Cultural_Revolution

Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang (depicted), the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet.

1963

Buddhist_crisis

Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power.

1954

Getúlio_Vargas

In the midst of a political crisis, Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro.

1942

World_War_II

World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victory.

1941

Adolf_Hitler

Adolf Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of World War II.

1921

Royal_Navy

The Royal Navy's R.38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure over Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew aboard.

1914

Battle_of_Cer

The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.

1889

1888–89_New_Zealand_Native_football_team

The New Zealand Native football team, predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.