A large-scale power outage struck most of Argentina, all of Uruguay, and parts of Paraguay, leaving an estimated total of 48 million people without electrical supply. By the following day, it was confirmed that power had been restored to most of Argentina and Uruguay, and Argentine President Mauricio Macri promised a full investigation.
The El Paraíso stampede was a stampede of more than 500 people that occurred at the El Paraíso Social Club in the El Paraíso urbanization in Caracas, Venezuela. The stampede was the result of a tear gas canister being detonated during a brawl among a group of students from different schools celebrating their proms.
"Psycho" is a song recorded by American rapper Post Malone featuring guest vocals from Ty Dolla $ign. It was released through Republic Records in 2018, as the third single from Post Malone's second studio album, Beerbongs & Bentleys.
Cars 3 is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Brian Fee in his directorial debut and written by Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson and Mike Rich, it is the third installment of the Cars film franchise and a stand-alone sequel to Cars 2.
Two Palestinian men opened fire on Israeli police officers in the Old City of Jerusalem, injuring four of them. An additional attacker stabbed a policewoman, she was critically injured, and later died in hospital. All three attackers were shot and killed by the Israeli authorities.
Oslo is a Tony award-winning play by J. T. Rogers, recounting in dramatized, partially fictional form, the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Man of Steel was released in theaters in 2013, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the film became a box office success, grossing more than $668 million worldwide. Critics praised the film's visuals and Hans Zimmer's score but criticized its pacing and lack of character development.
A multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. According to figures provided by the Government of Uttarakhand, more than 5,700 people were "presumed dead." This total included 934 local residents.
The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of 2018, the pledge has 175 signatories, either individuals or couples; from 22 different countries. Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, and their pledges total over $365 billion.
The Dead Zone is an American/Canadian science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season but due to the low ratings and high production costs, the series was canceled in December 2007 without a proper series finale.
The Chicago Bulls finished the 1995-96 NBA season with a combined regular season and postseason record of 87-13, the best in NBA history. They defeated the Seattle SuperSonics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals to win their fourth championship.
"HIStory" is the ninth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first released on his label MJJ Productions. "HIStory" attracted some controversy and Jackson rerecorded some lyrics in "They Don't Care About Us" after he was accused of antisemitism.
The love affairs of both Diana and Charles were exposed in 1992 when Andrew Morton published his book, Diana: Her True Story. The book, which also revealed the Princess's allegedly suicidal unhappiness, caused a media storm.
Ghostbusters II is an American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It is the sequel to the film Ghostbusters, and follows the further adventures of the three parapsychologists and their organization that combats paranormal activities.
Algeria debuted at the 1982 FIFA World Cup by recording a shock 2–1 win over West Germany on the opening day, described as the "greatest World Cup upset since North Korea beat Italy in 1966", and as "one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history". Algeria became the first African and Arab team to defeat a European team at the FIFA World Cup.
Bryan Robson is an English football manager and former player. He spent 20 years in the record books thanks to a goal he scored against France in England's opening game of the 1982 World Cup. It came after just 27 seconds of play – the third fastest in World Cup finals history until 2002.
Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop. Hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, the show was equally well known for its voluptuous, scantily clad women in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits and its country-style corn pone humor.
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event. Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000 to 90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar.
"Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted from a grueling tour of England. Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6. Having orbited Earth 48 times, Tereshkova remains the only woman ever to have been on a solo space mission.
Psycho is an American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane, who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates.
Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by the Soviet invasion that succeeded the failed Hungarian Revolution and resulted in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States from 1933-36 in response to the Great Depression. It included support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly as well as new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply.
At the time of its founding, IBM was called the “Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company” and was only renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated in 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family which, despite minority ownership, still have the majority of the voting power.
The Northwest Passage is the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America. The first explorer to conquer the Northwest Passage solely by ship was the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored the passage with a crew of six. Amundsen, who had sailed to escape creditors seeking to stop the expedition, completed the voyage in a converted herring boat christened Gjøa.
The original trademark application for Pepsi-Cola was filed on September 23, 1902, with registration approved after nine months. The patent describes Pepsi-Cola as a flavoring syrup for soda water. This trademark expired on April 15, 1904.
Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who developed a technique for visualizing chromosomes and used it to demonstrate many fundamental phenomena in the cell. She described the exchange of information during meiosis, produced the first genetic map and described the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important during cell division. In 1983, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Geronimo, "the one who yawns", was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848.
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era. Smith is best known for two classic works: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
The pendulum clock was invented by Dutch scientist and inventor Christiaan Huygens, and patented the following year. It is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator.