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Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was launched in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, where it is currently the default browser. The browser is …

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One Battle After Another
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One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action-thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Th…

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Assata Shakur
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Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Pan…

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On This Day

10 events
2014
Mount_Ontake
Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years.
1996
Taliban
The Taliban drove Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, tortured and murdered former president Mohammad Najibullah, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
1988
Aung_San_Suu_Kyi
Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured), the political party National League for Democracy was founded in Burma.
1983
Richard_Stallman
American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.
1981
Iran–Iraq_War
Iran–Iraq War: Iran broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan by Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh.
1975
ETA_political-military
Two members of ETA political-military and three members of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, sentenced to death for murder, became the last people to be executed in Spain.
1964
BAC_TSR-2
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its maiden flight.
1949
Chinese_People's_Political_Consultative_Conference
Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng Liansong's design for the flag of China (pictured).
1941
SS_Patrick_Henry
SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
1940
World_War_II
World War II: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, officially forming a military alliance known as the Axis.

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