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Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life w…
Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918)
Xavier Cugat was an American musician and bandleader who was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music in the United States. Originally from Girona, Catalonia in Spain, he spen…
Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (born 1900)
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.…
Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)
Elliott Roosevelt was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Fran…
Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (born 1910)
Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important faces of Italian comedy together with Vittorio Gassman, Nino Man…
Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
An explosion at the ARCO Chemical (ACC) Channelview, Texas petrochemical plant killed 17 people and injured five others on July 5, 1990. It was one of the deadliest industrial disa…
An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview, Texas, killed 17 people and injured five others.
The Jammat-al-Muslimeen is an Islamist fundamentalist group in Trinidad and Tobago.
Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group, began a coup attempt against the government of Trinidad and Tobago by…
The Rwandan Patriotic Front is the ruling political party in Rwanda.
Fifty Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels deserted their Ugandan Army posts and crossed the border from Uganda into Rwanda,…
V. Shantaram, also known as Shantaram Bapu, was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and editor known for his work in Hindi and Marathi films. Widely regarded as …
V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1901)
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapoo…
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the …
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously,…
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created …
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr
Paperback Software International Ltd. was a software company founded in 1983 by Adam Osborne to manufacture discount software such as word processor Paperback Writer and related sp…
Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3'
The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Li…
Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament…
The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the…
The surface wave magnitude scale is one of the magnitude scales used in seismology to describe the size of an earthquake. It is based on measurements of Rayleigh surface waves that…
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
The Republic of China Armed Forces are the national military forces of the Republic of China (ROC), which is now based primarily in the Taiwan Area but formerly governed mainland C…
The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat…
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly known as the Conservative Party and colloquially as the Tories, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-righ…
British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional…
Faith is a city in the northeastern corner of Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 367 at the 2020 census. The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton kno…
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex…
Stephen Ray Vaughan, also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.…
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was…
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States in response to Saddam Hussein invading neighboring Kuwait on 2 August 1990. The …
Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or…
Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI …
Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in…
The Northern Xinjiang railway or Beijiang railway is a railway in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and Alashankou on the border with Kazakhstan. T…
Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou,…