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Zohran Mamdani
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Zohran Mamdani

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani is an American politician who has served as the 112th mayor of New York City since January 2026. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani served from 2021 to 2025 as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 36th district, representing Astoria, Queens…

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Marshawn Kneeland
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Marshawn Kneeland was an American professional football defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football Le…

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Rama Duwaji
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Rama Sawaf Duwaji is an American animator, illustrator, and ceramist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been…

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On This Day

10 events
2016
Syrian_civil_war
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
2012
Tammy_Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2004
Ufton_Nervet
A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train.
1988
1988_Lancang–Gengma_earthquakes
Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people.
1977
Kelly_Barnes_Dam
The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
1963
Nguyễn_Ngọc_Thơ
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five days after Minh deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
1944
B_Reactor
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.
1939
Intelligenzaktion
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
1917
World_War_I
First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1868
Red_Cloud
Red Cloud (pictured), a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.

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