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Giorgio Armani
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Giorgio Armani

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Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his work with fashion house Cerruti 1881, before founding his own label in 1975. He became known for min…

Naomi Osaka
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Naomi Osaka
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Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA fo…

Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "…

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On This Day

10 events
2010
2010_Canterbury_earthquake
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
2007
Al-Qaeda
Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
1995
Camp_Hansen
Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after kidnapping, beating, and torturing her.
1977
Golden_Dragon_massacre
The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
1957
Orval_Faubus
Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
1956
The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
The final novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, was released.
1955
Yumiko-chan_incident
A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.
1934
Evelyn_Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
1920
Križ,_Zagreb_County
Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1912
Albanian_revolt_of_1912
The Albanian revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.

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