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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles…
Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (born 1922)
Douglas Curtis Swan was an American comics artist. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of cov…
Curt Swan, American illustrator (born 1920)
Endel Karlovich Puusepp was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero…
Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded PASOK, the Panhellenic Soc…
Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Raymond Russell Lindwall was an Australian cricketer who played 61 Test matches for Australia between 1946 and 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in cr…
Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and rugby player (born 1921)
Sir Arthur Wendell Snelling was a senior British civil servant and diplomat.
Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (born 1914)
Veronica Guerin Turley was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South…
Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (born 1958)
Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu was a Turkish poet, linguist and writer.
Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (born 1932)
Lakis Petropoulos was a Greek football player who played as midfielder for Panathinaikos and a later manager.
Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (born 1932)
Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United King…
Albert R
Operation Grapes of Wrath, known in Lebanon as the April Aggression, was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to e…
Operation Grapes of Wrath: Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 1
A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations. There are differing opinions about what duratio…
A spree shooter carried out the Port Arthur massacre, killing 35 people, and injuring 37 in Tasmania, prompting stricter
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in Northwestern Europe. It consists of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 m…
Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden t
Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States case which held that a state constitutional amendment in Colorado preventing p…
In deciding Romer v
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the …
After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the C
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, Engla
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country.
Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup i
Jung Whee-in, known mononymously as Wheein, is a South Korean singer. She rose to prominence in 2014, as a member of the Korean girl group Mamamoo. In 2017, her song "Anymore" with…
Jung Wheein, South Korean singer
Divock Okoth Origi is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
Paige Wooding, better known by her ring name Jamie Hayter, is an English professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is one-half of the Brawling Bi…
Jamie Hayter, English professional wrestler
Lewis Renard Baker is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Stoke City.
Lewis Baker, English footballer
On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred …
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence f…
During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing
Patrick "Packy" Hanrahan is an American professional ten-pin bowler who joined the Professional Bowlers Association in 2018 after a collegiate career at Wichita State University. B…
Packy Hanrahan, American bowler