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Nicolás Maduro

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Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who became the president of Venezuela in 2013. On 3 January 2026, US forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; they were transported to the US and charged with drug trafficking to which they pleaded not guilty. Although he was de facto rem…

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Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consist…

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On This Day

10 events
2009
Eng_Foong_Ho_v_Attorney-General
In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.
2008
Mikheil_Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.
2007
Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail
The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.
2005
Dwarf_planet
The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
2003
Metropolitan_Police
The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.
2000
Sri_Lankan_Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
1991
Tskhinvali
Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, beginning the First South Ossetia War.
1991
Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Mogadishu
The embassy of the United States to Somalia was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.
1976
The_Troubles
The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the previous night, South Armagh Republican Action Force gunmen killed ten Protestants in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
1975
SS_Lake_Illawarra
The bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck a bridge over the River Derwent in Hobart, Australia, causing the deaths of seven of the ship's crewmen and five motorists on the bridge.

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