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Jeffrey Epstein
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Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher, before entering the banking and finance sector. He made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires. Over the course of several decades, he cultivated an elite social circle of promi…

Epstein files
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Epstein files
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The Epstein files are a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, and emails detailing the…

Savannah Guthrie
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Savannah Guthrie
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Savannah Clark Guthrie is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning…

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On This Day

10 events
2015
Songshan_Airport
Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 shut down the wrong engine in response to a flameout, leading to a crash that resulted in 43 deaths.
2008
London_low_emission_zone
The London low emission zone (sign pictured), charging certain diesel-powered commercial vehicles to enter Greater London, came into operation.
1999
New_York_City_Police_Department
Four plain-clothes New York City police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, prompting outrage both in and outside the city.
1999
New_Carissa
The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history.
1998
February_1998_Afghanistan_earthquake
An earthquake registering 5.9 MW struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that killed over 2,300 people and destroyed around 15,000 homes.
1974
Patty_Hearst
American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined.
1974
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve people.
1969
Yasser_Arafat
Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1945
World_War_II
World War II: American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest Japanese-run internment camp for enemy civilians in the Philippines.
1899
Philippine–American_War
The Philippine–American War began when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired on a Filipino soldier in Manila.

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