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Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them…
Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)
Michael Donaghy was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (born 1954)
Norman Frank Cantor was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of…
Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and educator (born 1929)
Russell Albion Meyer was an American filmmaker and photographer. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of sexploitation films featuring campy humor, …
Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photog…
Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (born 1933)
Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer and songwriter who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis S…
Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (born 1931)
Damayanti Joshi was a noted renowned exponent of the Kathak dance form. She believed Kathak is the art of storytelling. She began in the 1930s dancing in Madame Menaka's troupe, wh…
Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (born 1928)
Ellis Louis Marsalis Sr. was an American businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a former poultry farmer turned hotelier, Esso franchise owner and civil rights activist.
Ellis Marsalis Sr., American businessman and activist (born 1908)
Townsend Walter Hoopes II was an American historian and government official, who reached the height of his career as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969.
Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922)
The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on 22 April 2004 in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border with the People's Republic of China. At least 54 p…
Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more th
Brian Howard Clough was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He won the European Cup twic…
Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935)
Nicoll Highway MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle Line (CCL) in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core underneath Republic Avenue near th…
An incomplete tunnel leading to the Nicoll Highway MRT station in Singapore collapsed, resulting in four deaths and the
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ro…
The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military
"The Last One" is the series finale of the American sitcom Friends. Originally shown in its entirety, the episode's two parts were classified as the seventeenth and eighteenth epis…
The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired
The Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. …
Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of M…
Massachusetts became the first U
The Town of Granby is the Statutory Town that is the most populous municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 2,079 at the 2020 United States ce…
In Granby, Colorado, U
Noël Mamère is a French journalist and former politician. He was the mayor of Bègles in Gironde from 1989 to 2017, as well as deputy to the French National Assembly for Gironde's 3…
Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France had
Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 5 July and 20 September 2004. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held, in which Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo…
Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, which resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as…
Millennium Park is a public park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). …
Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the…
The Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire, also known as the Ycuá Bolaños Tragedy, occurred on 1 August 2004 in Asunción, Paraguay. After the fire broke out, exits were locked to prevent p…
Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from…
Tropical Storm Bonnie was a tropical storm that made landfall on Florida in August 2004. The second storm of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, Bonnie developed from a tropical wa…
Merely 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie struck the U.S. state of Florida, Hurricane Charley inflicted further…
Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The ninth named storm, the sixth hurrican…
Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85 percent of buildings on the island.
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki is a Finnish politician who was the first female and 39th prime minister of Finland from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003. From 2004 until 2019, she serve…
Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland