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Clyde A. Wheeler was an American congressional relations expert, lobbyist, and member of the White House staff. After leaving the White House staff, he returned to Oklahoma, where …
Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (born 1921)
Chen Liting was a Chinese playwright, drama and film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist C…
Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (born 1910)
William Norman Peach known as Bill Peach, was an Australian television journalist who hosted the ABC current affairs program This Day Tonight from 1967 to 1975.
Bill Peach, Australian journalist (born 1935)
David Charles Thomas was a Welsh professional golfer and renowned golf course architect.
Dave Thomas, Welsh golfer and architect (born 1934)
John Bellany was a Scottish painter.
John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)
Lorella Cedroni was an Italian political philosopher.
Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)
Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald was an American business executive from Wisconsin and was a key figure in bringing major league baseball back to Milwaukee in the form of the Milwaukee Brew…
Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)
Frank Victor Pulli was an American professional baseball umpire, working in the National League from 1972 until 1999. He umpired many postseason games, including four World Series.…
Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)
Barry Henry Stobart was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Shrewsbury Town during th…
Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)
Rafael Díaz Ycaza was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, short story writer, and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)
On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States, while emergency services p…
An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police service of Canada. The RCMP is an agency of the Government of Canada; it also provides police services under contract to 11…
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operat
Savar is an upazila of Dhaka District in the division of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is located at a distance of about 24 kilometers (15 mi) to the northwest of Dhaka city. Savar is most…
A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidenta
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the lake from Ontario, Ca…
Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other w
The 2013 Reyhanlı car bombings took place on 11 May 2013, when two car bombs exploded in the Turkish town of Reyhanlı, a town of 64,000 people, 5 km from the Syrian border and the …
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured
Petr Nečas is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013, and as Member of the Cham…
Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the 6th president of Egypt since 2014.
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état in Cairo, suspending…
On 6 July 2013, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Secondary School in the village of Mamudo in Yobe State, Nigeria and killed at least 42 people. Most of the victims we…
Gunmen attacked a secondary school in Mamudo, Yobe State, Nigeria, killing 42 people, mostly students.
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 Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a
On May 18, 2013, Mark Carson was fatally shot in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City by Elliot Morales. Morales was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged …
Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march a
The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and extremely violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at…
A tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, United States, killing 24 people and causing an estimated $2 billion of damage
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between the Indian government and left-wing extremist groups. The Naxalites are a group of communist groups following Maoist p…
Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoy of Indian National Congress leaders in th
The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, intense, and erratic tornado that occurred and hit a rural part of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of May 31, 2013. This …
An extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 1
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or unc…
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51, a secretive U