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Don Martin Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel Trial.
Don Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and novelist (born 1922)
Michael Charles Phillips was an American professional basketball player. At a height of 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m), he played at the center position. He played professionally for el…
Mike Phillips, American basketball player (born 1956)
Preceded by more than a week of heavy rain, a slow-moving storm system dropped tremendous precipitation across much of Texas and Oklahoma during the nights of May 24–26, 2015, trig…
At least 30 people are killed as a result of floods and tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by D…
One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens
MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. On the night of 1 June 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when…
A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 442 people
The 2015 Sabah earthquake struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia with a moment magnitude of 6.0 on 5 June, which lasted for 30 seconds. The earthquake was the strongest to affect Malaysia s…
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Arm…
A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is al
Jayne Meadows was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the wife of o…
Jayne Meadows, American actress (born 1919)
Lawrence Gene Fullmer was an American professional boxer and World Middleweight champion. He was known as The Utah Cyclone, The Mormon Mauler, and as "Cyclone" Gene Fullmer.
Gene Fullmer, American boxer (born 1931)
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne was an American amateur and professional wrestler, football player, wrestling trainer and wrestling promoter. He was the owner and promoter of the Mi…
Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer (born 1926)
Alexander Rich was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Med…
Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (born 1924)
Before running for president of the United States in 2016, 2020 and 2024 Donald Trump pursued a career as a businessman, with a focus on renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, an…
American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming elect
On June 17, 2015, an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed and another injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel…
Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
The National Assembly, also known as the Parliament of Afghanistan or simply as the Afghan Parliament, was the legislature of Afghanistan in various forms from the monarchy, republ…
The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
On 27 June 2015, a dust fire occurred at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Staff of an outdoor "color powder party" sprayed participants with clouds…
Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 ot
Michael Joseph Ingelido was an American Air Force major general who was commander of the Fourteenth Aerospace Force,, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado.
Michael J
François Michelin was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his …
François Michelin, French businessman (born 1926)
Jean Evelyn Nidetch was an American businessperson and the founder of Weight Watchers.
Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (born 1923)
Calvin Peete was an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American to have played on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, prior to the emergence of Tiger Woods. P…
Calvin Peete, American golfer (born 1943)
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed. Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and la…
A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible f…
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in…
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. …
Four U.S. Marines and a United States Navy Sailor are killed in the a shooting spree targeting military installations…