The 2017 Central Mexico earthquake struck with an estimated magnitude of Mw 7.1 and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km south of the city of Puebla. 370 people were killed by the earthquake and related building collapses, including 228 in Mexico City, and more than 6,000 were injured.
The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur. The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop, who wakes up in the afterlife and is introduced by Michael to "The Good Place", a highly selective Heaven-like utopia he designed, as a reward for her righteous life.
During their twelve-year relationship, "Brangelina" were the subject of worldwide media coverage. After the initial scandal subsided, they became one of Hollywood's most glamorous couples. After two years of marriage, the couple separated in September 2016. In her divorce filing, Jolie requested physical custody of their children.
Pool B of the 2015 Rugby World Cup began in September and was completed on 11 October 2015. The pool was composed of South Africa, Samoa, and Scotland – who all qualified automatically for the tournament due to finishing in the top three positions in their pools in 2011 – joined by the top Asian qualifier, Japan.
The vehicle, manned by bicyclist Todd Reichert, achieved speed of 139.45 kilometers per hour. The record attempt took place at the on a highway outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Aerovelo Eta had lightweight, low-profile aerodynamically designed shell. Same engineering team and same pilot also won a prize for human-powered helicopter in 2013.
John Wick is 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. It is the first installment in the John Wick film series.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a national museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The purpose of the museum is to "explore the subject of human rights with a special but not exclusive reference to Canada, in order to enhance the public's understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue."
In 2013, Beyoncé's endorsements of Pepsi and H&M made her and Jay-Z the world's first billion dollar couple in the music industry. That year, Beyoncé was published as the fourth most-powerful celebrity in the Forbes rankings.
Prada S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada.
Allegiance is a musical with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo and a book by Marc Acito, Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. The story, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II, was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei, who stars in the musical.
The series was created and executively produced by Michael Patrick King and Whitney Cummings. The season introduces Max Black, a sarcastic below-the-poverty-line waitress, and Caroline Channing, a disgraced New York socialite turned waitress, who both pool their money together to pay for their future cupcake business.
Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of 1920s and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an industrial disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated total of 4.9 million barrels of oil discharged into the ocean after several failed efforts to contain the flow. After nearly 5 months, the well was sealed and declared “effectively dead” by National Incident Commander Thad Allen.
During the financial crisis in 2008, the US authorities enacted the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, referred to as a bailout of the US financial system. The law authorized the US Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion in order to help the economy. It is also known as the Paulson financial rescue plan.
Veteran rock group Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history, according to research published by Guinness World Records. The band has scored 61 chart successes, dating from Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1968 to You'll Come Around in 2004.
"Pilot" is the pilot episode of American television sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which premiered on CBS. It was written by series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and directed by Pamela Fryman. The pilot takes place in 2030, as a future Ted Mosby is telling his kids the story of how he met their mother.
The HBO miniseries Angels in America had the most successful night. It became the first and only program to sweep every major category, going 7/7, in Emmy history. It also joined Caesar's Hour, in 1957, as the only program to win all four main acting categories.
The first series of BBC family sitcom My Family originally aired between 19 September and 7 November 2000. The first episode of the series, and the pilot episode, is entitled "The Serpent's Tooth". All eight episodes in the first series are thirty minutes long.
"Millennium" is a song by English singer Robbie Williams from his album I've Been Expecting You. It was released as the album's first track which became Williams' first single to top the UK Singles Chart. The song also received extensive airplay in the United States and Canada, where it was the lead single from Williams' 1999 compilation album.
Ötzi is the well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the nickname "Ötzi". He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic Europeans.
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris that crashed into the Ténéré desert, near Bilma, Niger after an in-flight explosion with 170 people on board.
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a Mercalli intensity of IX. The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people. The event caused between three and four billion USD in damage as 412 buildings collapsed and another 3,124 were seriously damaged in the city.
The first ASCII emoticons, :-) and :-(, were written by Scott Fahlman in 1982, but emoticons actually originated on the PLATO IV computer system in 1972. As SMS and the internet became widespread in the late 1990s, emoticons became increasingly popular and were commonly used on text messages, internet forums and e-mails.
The concert attracted more than 500,000 people, at that time the largest ever concert attendance. Warner Bros. Records released a live album of the show, The Concert in Central Park, which went double platinum in the US. A 90-minute recording of the concert was sold to Home Box Office for over $1 million.
Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest.
Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is a song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and in 1970 remade by Diana Ross. The remake was similar to gospel with elements of classical music strings, spoken word passages from Ross, with The Andantes, Jimmy Beavers, Jo Armstead, Ashford & Simpson, and Brenda Evans and Billie Calvin of The Undisputed Truth as backing singers, giving the song a soul and gospel vocal element.
"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter". Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song gave birth to the Twist dance craze. His single became a hit, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev spent thirteen days in the United States, with two requests: to visit Disneyland and to meet John Wayne, Hollywood's top box-office draw. Due to the Cold War tension and security concerns, he was famously denied an excursion to Disneyland.
In 1950, Argentina’s postwar export boom tapered off, and inflation and corruption grew. After being reelected in 1951, Peron became more conservative and repressive and seized control of the press to control criticism of his regime. As a result, in September 1955, the army and navy revolted, and Peron was forced to flee to Paraguay. In 1960, he settled in Spain.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
Robinson had an exceptional 10-year MLB career. He was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for 6 consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949, the first black player so honored.
Alexander "Alick" Joy Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the 1840s. Although an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame and sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball", the centrality of his role in the development of the game has been disputed.
Amid the Great Depression, the pound was worth a fixed amount compared to other currencies. The Bank of England was obligated to exchange gold for pounds at the specific rate. However, speculative attacks on the pound forced Britain to drop the standard. This caused investors to lose confidence in the pound, decreasing its value.
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 19 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire. Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty-six days.
George Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by the first President of the United States George Washington to "friends and fellow-citizens". It was originally published in David C. Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser in 1796 under the title "The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States".
Montgolfier brothers were French inventors of the hot air balloon. In 1783, they publicly demonstrated their creation, the Aérostat Révelillon. The first living beings out in the air were a duck, a rooster and a sheep called Montauciel, that were in a basket attached to the balloon. It was performed at the royal palace in Versailles.