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John Serry was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and Television networks and contributed to Voice of Ameri…
John Serry Sr., American accordion player and composer (born 1915)
Garner Ted Armstrong was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught obse…
Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (born 1930)
Shelby Fredrick Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs, including the 1958 hit rock-and-roll comedy single "The Purple People E…
Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter (born 1921)
Erich Hallhuber was a Bavarian actor. He was born in Munich and worked in theatre, opera, television and film.
Erich Hallhuber, German actor (born 1951)
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
Emil Fackenheim, German rabbi and philosopher (born 1916)
Richard Charles Mitchell, commonly known as Bob Mitchell, was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970…
Bob Mitchell, English educator and politician (born 1927)
Slim Dusty, AO MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon, referred to universally as Australia's King of Cou…
Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1927)
Simon Vengai Muzenda was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2003 under President Robert Mu…
Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe (born 1922)
Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and a member of the C…
Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1941)
A backhoe is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor…
A backhoe breached a pipeline in Toronto, Canada, which caused a gas explosion that killed seven people
On June 29, 2003, an overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in a Chicago, Illinois, apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty-seven others. It w…
An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others
Tropical Cyclone Manou was a relatively rare May tropical cyclone that affected southeastern Madagascar. The final named storm of the 2002–03 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season…
Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
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Sudan Airways Flight 139 was a Sudan Airways passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The Boeing 737 aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khart…
Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashed near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117…
The Directorate General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE…
French Directorate General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid…
Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak …
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than 130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on…
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003. It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representat…
A car bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Brazilian diplomat Sérgio…
Roy Stewart Moore is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time…
Roy Moore, Alabama's chief justice, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal court order to remove a…
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List i…
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduct…
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing …
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic …
Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as…
French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at…