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'Eastside' is at #1 on the UK singles chart

"Eastside" is a song by American music producer Benny Blanco and American singers Halsey and Khalid. The song was released in 2018 as Blanco's debut single. The single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 56, and has since peaked at number 9 on the chart.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached

The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff began with a petition for her impeachment accepted by Eduardo Cunha, then president of the Chamber of Deputies. She was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85, items V and VI of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law.

Hanjin Shipping goes bankrupt

Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean integrated logistics and container transport company. Prior to its financial demise, Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one of the world's top ten container carriers in terms of capacity.

Legendary British journalist and TV presenter David Frost dies

David Paradine Frost was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer. In 2013, Frost was aboard a Cunard Line cruise ship, the MS Queen Elizabeth, when he had a heart attack and died. His post-mortem found that he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

'Argo' premieres at the Telluride Film Festival

Argo is an American historical drama film directed by Ben Affleck. Screenwriter Chris Terrio adapted the screenplay from the book by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez, The Master of Disguise. Upon release, Argo received widespread acclaim.

Franzen's 'Freedom' is released

Freedom is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, and was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications, and has been described as a "Great American Novel".

Obama ends the US mission in Iraq

The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq was a contentious issue in the U.S. for much of the 2000s. The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq began in 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was completed by 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War. The number of U.S. military forces in Iraq peaked at 170,300 in 2007.

The Walt Disney Company acquires Marvel Entertainment

The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for US$4 billion; it has been a limited liability company since then. For financial reporting purposes, Marvel is primarily reported as part of Disney's Consumer Products segment ever since Marvel Studios' reorganization into Walt Disney Studios.

'The Dark Knight' reaches $500 million domestically

The Dark Knight is the highest-grossing film of 2008, the second-highest-grossing superhero film, the second-highest-grossing film based on comics, and the fourth highest-grossing North American film of all time. Adjusted for ticket-price inflation though, it ranks 28th.

The 23rd MTV Video Music Awards are held

The 2006 Video Music Awards marked the first time viewers were able to vote for all performers' categories. Like previous years, the artistic categories are still chosen by music industry professionals. Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers received the most nominations, with seven each.

Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat dies

Rotblat worked on both the British and American nuclear weapon projects during the World War 2. After the war he studied nuclear fallout. He became opponent of nuclear weapons. His work led to Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.

2002

Brazil striker Ronaldo becomes a Real Madrid player

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a striker. At age 23, he had scored over 200 goals for club and country. After almost three years of inactivity due to serious knee injuries and recuperation, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2002, which was followed by spells at A.C. Milan and Corinthians.

LAPA Flight 3142 crashes

LAPA Flight 3142 was a scheduled Buenos Aires–Córdoba flight operated by the Argentine airline Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas. The flight was operated with a Boeing 737-204C, registration LV-WRZ, that crashed in August 1999 while attempting to take off from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and failed to get airborne. The crash resulted in 65 fatalities.

Princess Diana dies in the car accident

Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, film producer Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes S280, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene. A fourth passenger in the car, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, was seriously injured but survived.

Garry Kasparov is beaten by computer for the first time

Contrary to the common belief, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was not defeated by a machine for the first timer during his famous match with the Deep Blue supercomputer in 1996. He lost a game with a chess-playing computer program called ChessGenius written by Richard Lang. The game took place at Intel Chess Grand Prix in London, 1994.

IRA declares "complete" ceasefire

In 1994, the Irish Republican Army declared an indefinite ceasefire. However, from 1996 until 1997, the IRA called off its 1994 ceasefire because of its dissatisfaction with the state of negotiations. They re-instated the ceasefire in 1997, and it has been in operation since then.

Russia troops leave Berlin after half a century

The group helped suppress the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. After the end of occupation functions in 1954, the group was renamed the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Russian forces remained in Eastern Germany after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany until 1994.

Metallica start a four-week run at #1 on the US album chart

Metallica is the self-titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released by Elektra Records, it received widespread critical acclaim and became the band's best-selling album. Metallica produced five singles that are considered to be among the band's best-known songs.

Michael Jacskon's 'Bad' video premieres on CBS

"Bad" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records as the second single from Jackson's third major-label and the seventh studio album of the same name. The full version of the music video for "Bad" was released in August 1987, and broadcast as a CBS primetime special.

Dire Straits hit #1 on the US album chart

'Brothers in Arms' is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits. It charted at number one worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. 'Brothers in Arms' was the first album certified 10-times platinum in the UK and is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history.

1984

American skier Ted Ligety is born

Theodore Sharp "Ted" Ligety is an American alpine ski racer, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an entrepreneur, having cofounded Shred Optics. Ligety won the combined event at the 2006 Olympics in Turin and the giant slalom race at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. He is also a five-time World Cup champion in giant slalom.

'Purple Rain' opens at cinemas across the UK

Purple Rain is an American rock musical drama film directed by Albert Magnoli, written by Magnoli and William Blinn, and produced by Robert Cavallo, Joseph Ruffalo, and Steven Fargnoli. The film stars Prince in his acting debut playing "The Kid". Purple Rain was developed to showcase Prince's talents, and the film contains several concert sequences.

1983

American football player Larry Fitzgerald is born

Larry Darnell Fitzgerald Jr. is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-American honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft.

Solidarity emerges as a leading anti-communist force in East

Solidarity is a Polish labor union that was founded in 1980 under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the 1st trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Its membership reached 9.5 million members before its 1981 September Congress, which constituted one-third of the total working-age population of Poland.

George Harrison is found guilty of plagiarising

"My Sweet Lord" is a song by English musician George Harrison. Later in the 1970s, "My Sweet Lord" was at the center of a heavily publicised copyright infringement suit, due to its similarity to the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine" and Harrison was found to have subconsciously plagiarised the earlier tune.

1969

Former heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano dies

Rocky Marciano was a passenger in a small private plane, a Cessna 172 heading to Des Moines, Iowa. It was nighttime and bad weather had set in. The pilot, Glenn Belz tried to land the plane at a small airfield outside Newton, Iowa but the aircraft hit a tree two miles short of the runway. Marciano, Belz and Frankie Farrell were killed on impact.

Decca Records release 'Street Fighting Man'

"Street Fighting Man" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the band's "most political song," Rolling Stone ranked the song number 301 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy flies for the first time

The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft. It is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines, which in turn was named for its resemblance to a pregnant guppy. Five Super Guppies were built.

The Ronettes first enter the US singles chart with 'Be My Baby'

"Be My Baby" is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. It was recorded at Gold Star Studios Hollywood by American girl group The Ronettes. It is considered one of the best songs of the 1960s by NME, Time, and Pitchfork staff members.

1913

Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands

The club was founded in 1913 as a team for Philips employees. PSV's history contains two golden eras revolving around the UEFA Cup victory in 1978 and the 1987–88 European Cup victory as part of the seasonal treble in 1988. The team has won the Eredivisie 24 times, the KNVB Cup nine times and the Johan Cruyff Shield ten times.

Theodore Roosevelt makes a "square deal" speech

Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. Thus, it aimed at helping middle-class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting a business from the most extreme demands of organized labor.

Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. A process using roll film was first described in a patent application submitted in France and the U.S. by French inventor Louis Le Prince, the concept was also used by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1889, and subsequently developed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.

Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899.

The first Jack the Ripper's victim

Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was one of the Whitechapel murder victims. Her death has been attributed to the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have killed and mutilated at least five women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888.

Roman emperor Caligula is born

Caligula was Roman emperor from AD 37 to AD 41. The son of Germanicus, a popular Roman general, and Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Although was born Gaius Caesar, he acquired the nickname "Caligula" from his father's soldiers.

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