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Jacqueline Burroughs was a Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, an…
Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)
Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher was an American singer and actor. Popular during the 1950s, he sold millions of records and hosted his own TV show, The Eddie Fisher Show. Fisher had mult…
Eddie Fisher, American singer (born 1928)
Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Tsaryov was a Russian professional footballer.
Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (born 1971)
Malcolm Douglas was an Australian wildlife documentary film maker, and crocodile hunter. Douglas started in the 1960s as a professional crocodile hunter and farmer, but later dedic…
Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (born 1941)
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet politician and disputed President of the Soviet Union for three days. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Nikita Khrushchev, Leon…
Gennady Yanayev, Russian engineer and politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union (born 1937)
Terry Newton was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker. He began his professional career with Leeds Rhinos in 1996, before joining his hometown clu…
Terry Newton, English rugby player (born 1978)
Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, visual artist and activist. She was known for her roles in pre-code films, and garnered renewed fame late in life for her portrayal o…
Gloria Stuart, American actress (born 1910)
Kurt Albert was a German climber and photographer, and the pioneer of the redpoint concept in free climbing. He started climbing at the age of 14. Before he committed himself to a …
Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (born 1954)
Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other acco…
Arthur Penn, American director and producer (born 1922)
Tony Curtis was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in r…
Tony Curtis, American actor (born 1925)
Gregory Carlos Giraldo was an American stand-up comedian, television personality, and lawyer. He is remembered for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials, and…
Greg Giraldo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1965)
Balaji Sadasivan was a Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Minister of State for the Ministry of the Environm…
Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (born 1955)
Dolores Mae Wilson was an American coloratura soprano who had an active international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Beginning her career with major thea…
Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (born 1928)
Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment and The Cannell Studios.
Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (born 1941)
On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling f…
An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico, resulted in the largest marine oil spill in hi
The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact or Kharkov Accords, was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia where…
Ukraine and Russia signed the Kharkiv Pact, extending the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of…
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was l
Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, he…
British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery
The Royal Thai Armed Forces are the armed forces of Thailand.
In Bangkok, the Thai military (pictured) concluded a week-long crackdown on widespread protests by forcing the surrender
The Nagahan wedding bombing was a suicide bombing on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time in the village of Nagahan in Arghandab District of Ka…
A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 o
Faisal Shahzad is a Pakistani-American man who was arrested for the attempted May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, he co…
Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode
Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly…
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the…
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the
James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. Previously, he was Chancellor of the…
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a c