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Annapurna Devi was an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music and music teacher. She was given the name 'Annapurna' by Maharaja Brijnath Singh of the former Maihar Est…
Annapurna Devi, Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player (born 1927)
Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the wife of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, until his assassination in 1986.
Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (born 1931)
Abdel Rahman Suwar al-Dahab was a Sudanese military officer who served as the Head of State of Sudan from 6 April 1985, to 6 May 1986.
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (born 1934)
Willem "Wim" Kok was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002. He was a member of the Labour…
Wim Kok, Dutch prime minister (born 1938)
Todd Reid was an Australian professional tennis player. He excelled as a junior and peaked in the Men's Tour in September 2004, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. …
Todd Reid, Australian tennis player (born 1984)
Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was follo…
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)
Tony Joe White, nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he …
Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (born 1943)
Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. was an American Trappist priest known as one of the principal developers of centering prayer, a contemplative method that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey i…
Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner, and chairman of King Power. He was the owner of then Premier League team Leicester City from 201…
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)
Colin Martin Sylvia was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (born 1985)
A vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canad…
A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths
The Congress of Deputies is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliamen…
For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a bal…
The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a…
Mario Mandžukić is a Croatian football coach and a former player who was most recently an assistant coach for the Croatia national team. As a player, he played as a forward and bec…
Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held on Saturday 19 May 2018 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The groom is a member of the British r…
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Englan
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Mexican charter airline Global Air on behalf of Cubana de Aviación, from José Martí International Airport…
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Ai
Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the…
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for r
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has served as the president of Zimbabwe since 2017. His rule has been described as a dictatorship. A member of ZANU–PF an…
Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017…
Dahyan, sometimes rendered as Dhahyan or Duhyan, is a town in Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is the birthplace of Badreddin al-Houthi, father of Hussein al-Houthi. Du…
A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.
The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina, commonly known as Silent Sam, is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson, which stood o…
Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by…
The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court in India. It is the highest appellate court for all civil and criminal cases in India. The court …
The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.
The Israeli Air Force operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of I…
The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria; Syrian air defences…
The International Court of Justice, or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It settles legal disputes submitted to it by states…
The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under no obligation to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific…
The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and is considered a …
The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.