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Donald Trump tweets an edited wrestling video attacking CNN

President Trump posted a short video to his Twitter account in which he is portrayed wrestling and punching a figure whose head has been replaced by the logo for CNN. The video, about 28 seconds long, appears to be an edited clip from a years-old appearance by Mr. Trump in WrestleMania, an annual professional wrestling event.

Suicide bombing of Karrada in Baghdad kills at least 341 people

ISIL militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 340 civilians and injured hundreds more. A few minutes after midnight local time, a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least 5.

BP agrees to pay $18.7bn for Deepwater Horizon spill

BP, the U.S. Justice Department, and five Gulf states announced that the company agreed to pay a record settlement of $18.7 billion. To date, BP’s cost for the clean-up, environmental and economic damages and penalties has reached $54 billion.

Sinking of the Kim Nirvana

The sinking of Kim Nirvana-B occurred in 2015, en route from Ormoc to Pilar in Ponson Island, among the Camotes Islands. It was reported that the ship, a motorized bangka, was overloaded with passengers and cargo that led to it capsizing after making a sharp turn.

Gujranwala derailment

The 2015 Gujranwala derailment occurred when a military-special train carrying Pakistan Army unit was derailed at Gujranwala due to a bridge collapsing under it. Nineteen people were killed and over 100 were injured.

American engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart dies

He invented the computer mouse, hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. He demonstrated all these inventions in 1968 in a famous presentation. Engelbart also observed that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential. This observation is called Engelbart's Law.

Valli's couture collection is all about fairytales

Continuing a story of haute couture fasion week in Paris is impossible to ignore the collection of Giambattista Valli. Magic forest, fairy tales, fairies and nymphs were the muses to create this collection.

Glaxo agrees to pay $3bn in fraud settlement

GSK pleaded guilty to promotion of drugs for unapproved uses, failure to report safety data, and kickbacks to physicians in the United States and agreed to pay a $3 billion settlement. It was the largest health-care fraud case to date in that country and the largest settlement by a drug company.

2010

Ghana's Black Stars is the only African team in the QF in this year

The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in international association football and has done so since the 1950s. In the 2010 World Cup, Ghana progressed beyond the group stages of the World Cup in South-Africa and reached the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Uruguay.

Millions rock for Africa in Live8 concerts

Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland. More than 1,000 musicians performed at the concerts, which were broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

Pink Floyd team up for the first time in 24 years

The main Live 8 concert was held at Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom. Originally scheduled to close at 21:30 the concert overran and went on until about 00:30, leaving many in the audience with no means of returning home. Furthermore, the event marked the first time in 24 years that Pink Floyd's seminal line-up would perform.

2003

Real Madrid formally announce the signing of David Beckham

Following a successful medical, Beckham was unveiled in front of 500 accredited journalists from 25 countries at Real's basketball facility, where he was handed the famous white shirt. Although Beckham had worn the number seven shirt for Manchester United and England, he was unable to wear it at Madrid as it was assigned to club captain Raúl.

Millionaire Fossett flies around the world in a balloon

Steve Fossett was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.

2000

France defeats Italy

Marco Delvecchio gave Italy the lead in the 55th minute and they held on until the final minute of injury time when Sylvain Wiltord took the game into extra time. France won the game just before half-time in extra-time when Robert Pirès cut the ball back for David Trezeguet to fire the golden goal and win the tournament for France.

'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' is published

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened.

Thailand floats the baht

The crisis started in Thailand with the financial collapse of the Thai baht after the Thai government was forced to float the baht due to lack of foreign currency to support its currency peg to the U.S. dollar. Thailand had acquired a burden of foreign debt that made the country effectively bankrupt even before the collapse of its currency.

Classical Era star Jimmy Stewart dies

James Maitland Stewart was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A thrombosis formed in his right leg, leading to a pulmonary embolism one week later. Surrounded by his children, Stewart died at the age of 89 at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

The first artist has five number one singles from one album

Five of the singles hit No. 1 in the United States, while a sixth charted within the top ten, and a seventh charted within the top twenty on the Hot 100. Bad also peaked at No. 1 in thirteen countries. The only songs on the album which were not released as commercial singles were "Speed Demon" and "Just Good Friends".

Giotto probe is launched

Built and operated by ESA, Giotto was a probe made for flyby of the Halley comet. Indeed, on 13th March 1986 she approached the comet nucleus on just 596 kilometers. Giotto measured chemical composition of the material ejected from the comet and took pictures. Later, in 1990, she studied another comet, Grigg-Skjellerup.

Frank Sinatra hits #1 on the US singles chart

"Strangers in the Night" is a song credited to Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Reaching #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's album Strangers in the Night, which became his most commercially successful album.

Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.

The first Walmart opens

Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City store at 719 W. Walnut Street in Rogers, Arkansas. The building is now occupied by a hardware store and an antique mall. Within its first five years, the company expanded to 24 stores across Arkansas and reached US$12.6 million in sales.

Ernest Hemingway commits suicide

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Hemingway died by "quite deliberately" shooting himself with his favorite shotgun. A doctor quickly arrived at the house who determined Hemingway "had died of a self-inflicted wound to the head".

Elvis Presley records 'Hound Dog' & 'Don't Be Cruel'

"Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version is the 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked number 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time.

1954

Jaroslav Drobný wins Wimbledon singles title

Jaroslav Drobný defeated Ken Rosewall in the final, 13–11, 4–6, 6–2, 9–7 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1954 Wimbledon Championships. Vic Seixas was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Budge Patty.

'Bob & Ray show' premieres on NBC radio

Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style.

The SS Arandora Star sinks with the loss of over 800 lives

SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troop ship in the Second World War. In 1940 she was sunk in controversial circumstances by a German U-boat with a large loss of life, 865.

Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

Many researchers including navigator and aeronautical engineer Elgen Long believe that the Electra, an American twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner, ran out of fuel and that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea. The "crash and sink" theory is often the most widely accepted explanation of Earhart’s and Noonan’s fate.

The Night of the Long Knives ends

The Night of the Long Knives was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany in 1934, when Adolf Hitler ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his hold on power in Germany, as well as to alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for president

The convention resulted in the nomination of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for President and Speaker of the House John N. Garner from Texas for Vice President. Beulah Rebecca Hooks Hannah Tingley was a member of the Democratic National Committee and Chair of the Democratic Party of Florida.

Zeppelin airship flies for the first time

The airship was called LZ 1. Ferdinand von Zeppelin flew her from a floating hangar on Lake Constance in southern Germany. Zeppelins were used for passenger transportation or as early bombers on the beginning of the twentieth century. Later, they were surpassed by aircraft. Today, the are used mostly as experimental vessels.

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield

Charles Julius Guiteau was an American writer and lawyer who assassinated United States President James A. Garfield in 1881. Guiteau falsely believed he had played a major role in Garfield's victory, for which he should be rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau's motive was revenge against Garfield for an imagined political debt.

Denmark Vesey is hanged after being accused of a slave rebellion

Denmark Vesey was a literate, skilled carpenter and leader among African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. He was accused and convicted of being the leader of "the rising," a major potential slave revolt planned for the city in 1822 and was executed shortly thereafter.

Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine

Thomas Savery invented the first commercially used steam powered device, a steam pump which is often referred to as an "engine". Savery's "engine" was a revolutionary method of pumping water, which solved the problem of mine drainage and made widespread public water supply practicable.

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