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Joseph Morris was a Canadian trade unionist mostly noted as the president of the Canadian Labour Congress in the 1970s.
Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (born 1913)
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator…
René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (born 1904)
Roger Lapébie was a French racing cyclist who won the 1937 Tour de France. In addition, Lapébie won the 1934 and 1937 editions of the Critérium National. He was born at Bayonne, Aq…
Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (born 1911)
Beryl Elizabeth Reid was a British actress. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performa…
Beryl Reid, English actress (born 1919)
Jason Bernard was an American actor.
Jason Bernard, American actor (born 1938)
Eric Lawson Malpass was an English novelist noted for witty descriptions of rural family life, notably of his creation, the extended Pentecost family. He also wrote historical fict…
Eric Malpass, English author (born 1910)
Christopher John Dyke Acland was an English drummer and songwriter. He was the drummer of the London-based alternative rock band Lush.
Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (born 1966)
Shamsuddin Qasemi was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author and educationist. He was the founding president of the Khatme Nabuwwat Andolan Council, former secretary-gen…
Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (born 1935)
Georgios Zoitakis was a general of the Hellenic Army and member of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1973. He served as Deputy Minister of National Defence and upon…
Georgios Zoitakis, Greek general and politician (born 1910)
Robert Anton Grim was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball.
Bob Grim, American baseball player (born 1930)
Arthur Julien Tremblay, was a Canadian politician.
Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1917)
Eugen Kapp was an Estonian composer and music educator. Characterized by simple harmonies, march rhythms and an appealing melodic style, his music is reflective upon the musical id…
Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (born 1908)
John Young was a British actor from Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the father of the actor Paul Young.
John Young, Scottish actor (born 1916)
Evdokia Reshetnik was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist. She was a specialist in the mole-rats and ground squirrels of Ukraine, and was the first scientist to describe the sandy …
Evdokia Reshetnik, Ukrainian zoologist
Operation Grapes of Wrath, known in Lebanon as the April Aggression, was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to e…
Operation Grapes of Wrath: Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 1
A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations. There are differing opinions about what duratio…
A spree shooter carried out the Port Arthur massacre, killing 35 people, and injuring 37 in Tasmania, prompting stricter
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in Northwestern Europe. It consists of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 m…
Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden t
Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States case which held that a state constitutional amendment in Colorado preventing p…
In deciding Romer v
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the …
After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the C
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, Engla
TWA Flight 800 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Fiumicino Airport in Rome, It…
TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as fric…
Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain…
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was an international charter flight from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, to Svalbard Airport on Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipel…
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a…
American rapper Tupac Shakur (pictured) was shot by an unknown assailant in Las Vegas, dying from his injuries six…