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Abdirizak Haji Hussein
Abdirizak Haji Hussein (Cabdirisaaq Xaaji Xuseen; عبد الرازق حاجي حسين‎; 24 December 192431 January 2014) was a Somali diplomat and politician.
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Ahmed Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (21 August 1929 – 28 March 2017), sometimes known by the nickname "Kathy", was a South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist.
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Alan G. Rogers
Alan Greg Rogers (September 21, 1967 – January 27, 2008) was an ordained pastor, a U.S. Army Major and Intelligence Officer, a civil rights activist in the gay, lesbian and bisexual military community and the first known gay combat fatality of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Albert Van Coile
Albert Van Coile (27 March 1900 – 4 April 1927) was a Belgian footballer.
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Albertina Sisulu
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti–apartheid activist, and the wife of fellow activist Walter Sisulu (1912–2003).
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Alexander J. Menza
Alexander J. Menza (March 31, 1932 - March 5, 2007) was an American Democratic Party politician.
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Ali Kwitang
Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habshi, better known as Habib Ali of Kwitang or Habib Ali Kwitang (على بن عبدالرحمن الحبشى,; born in Jakarta, 20 April 1870 CE - died in Jakarta, October 13, 1968 CE) was one of the leading Islamic clerics and preachers in Jakarta in the 20th century.
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Allan Simonsen (racing driver)
Allan Simonsen (5 July 1978 – 22 June 2013) was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense.
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Alyosha Monument, Murmansk
Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (Защитникам Советского Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны), commonly called Alyosha ('Алёша'; Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called, in Russia, the Great Patriotic War).
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Amelia Douglas
Amelia Douglas (1 January 1812 – 8 January 1890) was of mixed Irish, French and Cree heritage who was the spouse of the first colonial governor of British Columbia, when the Colony of British Columbia was established.
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André Bouchard
André Bouchard (January 26, 1946 – 4 March 2010) was a Canadian ecologist and environmentalist who spent most of his career at Université de Montréal (UdeM) and the Montreal Botanical Garden.
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Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.
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Archduke Rainer of Austria (1895–1930)
Archduke Rainer of Austria Rainer, Erzherzog von Österreich-Toskana; (21 November 1895 – 25 May 1930) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg, an Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany by birth.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.
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Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Atama Zedkaia
Leroij Zedkaia (1931 – November 19, 2010) was the Marshallese paramount chief, or Leroijlaplap, of Majuro.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor in popular culture
The attack on Pearl Harbor has received substantial attention in popular culture in multiple media and cultural formats including film, architecture, memorial statues, non-fiction writing, historical writing, and historical fiction.
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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 who remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998 and was also President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981.
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Azlan Shah of Perak
Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah, GCB, KStJ (19 April 1928 – 28 May 2014) was the 34th Sultan of Perak and was the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia from 26 April 1989 to 25 April 1994.
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Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino IIIQuezon, Manuel L..
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Benjamin F. Shobe
Benjamin Franklin Shobe (October 2, 1920 – January 29, 2016) was an American civil rights attorney and jurist who advocated for the desegregation of public education and public facilities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Bernardino González Ruiz
Bernardino González Ruíz (January 11, 1911 – March 15, 2012) was a Panamanian politician and physician.
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Bill Janklow
William John Janklow (September 13, 1939January 12, 2012) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office.
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Binghamton shootings
The Binghamton shootings took place on April 3, 2009, at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York.
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Black ribbon
A black ribbon is a symbol of remembrance or mourning.
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (p; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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Bradford City Hall
Bradford City Hall is a Grade I listed, 19th century town hall in Centenary Square, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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Burial at sea
Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat.
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Byron Brown
Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 62nd and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the City's first African-American mayor.
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Camp Douglas (Chicago)
Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville" was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War.
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Change of command
A change of command is a military tradition that represents a formal transfer of authority and responsibility for a unit from one commanding or flag officer to another.
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Charles Caruana
Charles Caruana CBE (9 October 1932, Gibraltar – 1 October 2010, Gibraltar) was a Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Maltese descent.
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Charles Farrar Forster
Charles Farrar Forster (29 February 1848 – 28 August 1894) was curate of the parish of Lockwood near Huddersfield, vicar of St Andrew's Church in Huddersfield, and the first vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw.
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Charleston church shooting
The Charleston church shooting (also known as the Charleston church massacre) was a mass shooting in which Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, murdered nine African Americans (including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney) during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on the evening of June 17, 2015.
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Charlesworth Samuel
Charlesworth Theophilus Samuel (died January 2008) was an Antiguan politician.
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Charlie Hebdo shooting
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
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Clone High
Clone High (occasionally referred to in the U.S. as Clone High U.S.A.) is a Canadian–American adult animated television series created by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence.
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Coat of arms of Ireland
The coat of arms of Ireland is blazoned as Azure a Celtic Harp Or, stringed Argent (a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background).
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Cubana de Aviación Flight 972
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 (CU972/CUB972) was a scheduled domestic flight from José Martí International Airport, Havana, Cuba, to Frank País Airport in Holguín, Cuba.
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Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Daniel L. Norris
Daniel L. Norris (August 30, 1935 – August 5, 2008) was Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from October 2, 1989 until September 30, 1994.
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Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch (September 16, 1926 – March 5, 2013) was a professor of law at Northwestern University and an Illinois politician.
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Death and funeral of Corazon Aquino
Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, the eleventh President of the Philippines, died on August 1, 2009 at the Makati Medical Center in Makati of cardiorespiratory arrest after being in hospital since June 2009, and was first diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008.
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Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher died of a stroke in London on 8 April 2013 at the age of 87.
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Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro
The former President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 (CST) in the evening of 25 November 2016.
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Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford
On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time (02:45, December 27, UTC).
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Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung died unexpectedly on the afternoon of 8 July 1994 at age 82.
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Death and state funeral of King Hussein
The state funeral of King Hussein took place in Amman on 8 February 1999.
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Death and state funeral of Norodom Sihanouk
On 15 October 2012, former Cambodian King and Prime Minister Norodom Sihanouk died at the age of 89, in Beijing, China, after suffering health issues.
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Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan
On June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, died after having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for nearly a decade.
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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France.
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Death of Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and former leader of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 on 23 March 2015, after being hospitalised with severe pneumonia on 5 February 2015.
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Death of Michael Jackson
On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Death of Nelson Mandela
On December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state, died at the age of 95 after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection.
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December 1963
The following events occurred in December 1963.
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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997), courtesy name Xixian (希贤), was a Chinese politician.
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Dhakeshwari Temple
Dhakeshwari National Temple (''Ðhakeshshori Jatio Mondir''.) is a Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.
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Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the first leader of the Australian Democrats.
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Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an American administrator and educator who worked as a civil rights and women's rights activist, specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
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Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
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Edward Keane
Edward Vivian Harvey Keane (8 August 1844 – 9 July 1904) was an Australian engineer, businessman, and politician.
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Edwin Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
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Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 (E3 2016) was the 22nd Electronic Entertainment Expo, during which several hardware manufacturers and software developers and publishers from the video game industry presented new and upcoming products to the attendees, primarily retailers and members of the video game press.
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Eliza Arden Robinson
Eliza Arden Robinson (c. 1852 – March 19, 1906) was an English-born Canadian social reformer.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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Emilio Carranza
Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez (December 9, 1905 – July 12, 1928) was a noted Mexican aviator and national hero, nicknamed the "Lindbergh of Mexico".
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Epainette Mbeki
Nomaka Epainette Mbeki, née Moerane (16 February 1916 – 7 June 2014), commonly known as "MaMbeki", was the mother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki and widow of political activist Govan Mbeki.
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Erik S. Kristensen
Erik S. Kristensen (March 15, 1972 – June 28, 2005) was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy SEALs who was killed in action during Operation Red Wings.
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Ernest Smith
Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith (3 May 1914 – 3 August 2005) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Esperanza Fire
The Esperanza Fire was a large, wind-driven, arson-caused wildfire that started on October 26, 2006, in a river wash near Cabazon, California, west of Palm Springs, California.
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Flag code of India
The Flag Code of India is a set of laws, practices and conventions that apply to the display of the national flag.
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Flag Day
A flag day is a flag-related holiday, a day designated for flying a certain flag (such as a national flag) or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag.
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Flag desecration
Flag desecration is a term applied to the desecration of flags or violation of flag protocol, a various set of acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public.
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Flag flying days in Mexico
In Article 18 of the Law on the National Arms, Flag, and Anthem (Ley Sobre El Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales) there is a listing of dates that the Mexican flag is flown by all branches of government.
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Flag of Australia
The flag of Australia is a defaced Blue Ensign: a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton (upper hoist quarter), and a large white seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter.
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Flag of Brazil
The flag of Brazil (Bandeira do Brasil), known in Portuguese as A Auriverde (The Yellow-and-green One), is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto "Ordem e Progresso" ("Order and Progress"), within a yellow rhombus, on a green field.
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Flag of Earth
Some individuals and organizations have promoted designs for a flag representing the planet Earth, though none have been officially recognized as such by any governmental body.
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Flag of Finland
The flag of Finland (Suomen lippu, Finlands flagga), also called siniristilippu ("Blue Cross Flag"), dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Flag of Gagauzia
The flag of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yerin bayraa) has served as the Gagauz Republic's flag since 1995, recognized as a regional symbol by Moldova.
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Flag of Greece
The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "sky-blue-white" or the "blue-white" (Γαλανόλευκη or Κυανόλευκη), officially recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols, is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white.
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Flag of Hong Kong
The flag of Hong Kong features a white, stylised, five-petal Hong Kong orchid tree (''Bauhinia blakeana'') flower in the centre of a red field.
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Flag of India
The National Flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre.
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Flag of Indonesia
The Flag of Indonesia is a simple bicolour with two equal horizontal bands, red (top) and white (bottom) with an overall ratio of 2:3.
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Flag of Ireland
The national flag of Ireland (bratach na hÉireann) – frequently referred to as the Irish tricolour (trídhathach na hÉireann) – is the national flag and ensign of the Republic of Ireland.
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Flag of Italy
The flag of Italy (Bandiera d'Italia), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore; is a tricolour featuring three equally-sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side.
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Flag of Japan
The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner bearing a crimson-red disc at its center.
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Flag of Lithuania
The flag of Lithuania (Lietuvos vėliava) consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green and red.
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Flag of Mexico
The flag of Mexico (Bandera de México) is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red with the national coat of arms charged in the center of the white stripe.
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Flag of Poland
The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red.
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Flag of Portugal
The Flag of Portugal (Bandeira de Portugal) is a rectangular bicolour with a field unevenly divided into green on the hoist, and red on the fly.
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Flag of Saudi Arabia
The flag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (علم المملكة العربية السعودية) is the flag used by the government of Saudi Arabia since March 15, 1973.
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Flag of Serbia
The flag of Serbia is a tricolor consisting of three equal horizontal bands, red on the top, blue in the middle and white on the bottom.
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Flag of Singapore
The national flag of Singapore was adopted in 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
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Flag of Somaliland
The flag of Somaliland is used in Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia.
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Flag of Spain
The flag of Spain (Bandera de España, colloquially known as "la Rojigualda"), as it is defined in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being twice the size of each red stripe.
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Flag of the Netherlands
The flag of the Netherlands (Vlag van Nederland) is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and blue.
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Flag of the Philippines
The National Flag of the Philippines (Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas) is a horizontal flag bicolor with equal bands of royal blue and scarlet, and with a white, equilateral triangle at the hoist.
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Flag of the President of the United States
The flag of the President of the United States consists of the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue background.
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Flag of the United Kingdom
The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, also known as the Union Flag.
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Flag of the United States
The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States.
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Flag of Washington
The state flag of Washington consists of the state seal, displaying an image of state namesake George Washington, on a field of dark green with gold fringe being optional.
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Flag of West Virginia
The flag of West Virginia is the official flag of the U.S. state of West Virginia and was officially adopted by the West Virginia Legislature on March 7, 1962.
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Flags at Buckingham Palace
Flags at Buckingham Palace vary according to the movements of court and tradition.
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Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
A mass shooting occurred at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, United States, on January 6, 2017, near the baggage claim in Terminal 2.
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Francisco Ada
Francisco Castro Ada (September 26, 1934 – March 2, 2010) was a Northern Mariana Islands politician.
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Frank Buckles
Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles, February 1, 1901February 27, 2011) was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at the age of 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.
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Frank Chee Willeto
Frank Chee Willeto (June 6, 1925 – June 23, 2012) was an American politician and Navajo code talker during World War II.
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Fred B. Kniffen
Fred Bowerman Kniffen (January 18, 1900 – May 19, 1993) was an American geographer and distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University for over 64 years.
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Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery is a First World War cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the outskirts of Fromelles in northern France, near the Belgian border.
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Gale Thomson
Anne Gale Kelly Thomson (17 May 1919 – March 8, 2010) was an American public and political figure, anti-tax activist, businesswoman, and benefactor.
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Günther Oettinger
Günther Hermann Oettinger (born 15 October 1953) is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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George Brumder
George Brumder (May 24, 1839 – May 9, 1910) was a German-American newspaper publisher and businessman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz via United Artists Television.
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Gisela Mota Ocampo
Gisela Raquel Mota Ocampo (13 March 1982 – 2 January 2016) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD.
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Globe Life Park in Arlington
Globe Life Park in Arlington is a baseball park in Arlington, Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Glossary of vexillology
Flag terminology is the nomenclature, or system of terms, used in vexillology, the study of flags, to describe precisely the parts, patterns, and other attributes of flags and their display.
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Godfrey A. Rockefeller
Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller, Sr. (May 22, 1924 – January 22, 2010) was an American aviator.
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Goh Keng Swee
Goh Keng Swee,, (6 October 1918 – 14 May 2010) was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century.
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Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Hamza Ali
Hamza Sultan Ali (8 August 1995 – 9 June 2016), also known as Hamza Shabbir, was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Young Cricketers and Rawalpindi Rams.
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Helen Timmons Henderson
Helen Timmons Henderson (May 23, 1877 – July 12, 1925) was a schoolteacher and politician from Virginia.
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History of East Texas State University
The history of East Texas State University (ETSU) comprises the history of the university now known as Texas A&M University–Commerce from its renaming as East Texas State University in 1965 (after the establishment of its first doctoral program) to its admission into the Texas A&M University System and renaming as Texas A&M University–Commerce in 1996.
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History of Heidelberg University
The history of Heidelberg University starts from its founding in 1386.
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History of Richmond Hill, Ontario
The history of Richmond Hill began when the First Nations came and settled in the area.
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History of the Norway national football team
An Olympic team achieved third place in the 1936 Olympics, after beating the hosts Germany earlier in the tournament.
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History of the University of Virginia
The history of the University of Virginia opens with its conception by Thomas Jefferson at the beginning of the early 19th century.
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HMY Alberta
HMY Alberta was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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Holodomor
The Holodomor (Голодомо́р); (derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation"), also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and—before the widespread use of the term "Holodomor", and sometimes currently—also referred to as the Great Famine, and The Ukrainian Genocide of 1932–33—was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians that was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country.
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Horace Tabor
Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (November 26, 1830 – April 10, 1899), also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and Republican politician.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.
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I-35W Mississippi River bridge
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Saint Anthony Falls of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
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International reactions to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014 provoked reactions from many countries and organisations.
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ISCARS Dash Touring Series
The ISCARS Dash Touring Series (previously known as the NASCAR Baby Grand National, Goody's Dash Series and IPOWER Dash Series among others) was a stock car racing series created by NASCAR in 1973, running solely at North Wilkesboro Speedway, that involved V-6 powered cars raced over relatively short distances.
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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (translation: "The Fearless Eyed Man"; May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Braddah Iz (Brother Iz), was a Native Hawaiian musician, entertainer and Hawaiian sovereignty activist.
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J. G. M. Ramsey
James Gettys McGready Ramsey (March 25, 1797 – April 11, 1884) was an American historian, physician, planter, slave owner, and businessman, active primarily in East Tennessee during the nineteenth century.
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J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Jack Edwards (British Army soldier)
Jack Edwards, OBE (24 May 1918 – 13 August 2006) was a former British World War II army sergeant and a POW, most well known for his dedicated efforts of tracking down Japanese war criminals and his determination displayed in defending the rights of Hong Kong war veterans.
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Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham, FRS, HonFRSC (13 February 1928 – 17 July 2014) was an English chemist working mainly in the area of inorganic chemistry.
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Jack of the United States
The jack of the United States of America is a maritime flag representing United States nationality flown on the jackstaff in the bow of American vessels that are moored or anchored.
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James Gandolfini
James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano, the Italian-American crime boss in HBO's television series, The Sopranos.
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James Maxie Ponder
James Maxie Ponder (February 22, 1888 – March 4, 1958) was a physician and the first African-American admitted to practice at Mercy Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Jan Bols
Jan Bols (born 27 August 1944 in Hoogeveen, Drenthe) is a former Dutch long track speed skater.
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Jay Rabinowitz (jurist)
Jay Andrew Rabinowitz (February 25, 1927 – June 16, 2001) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court four non-consecutive terms (1972–1975, 1978–1981, 1984–1987, 1990–1992) remaining active as a justice from February 1965 to February 1997.
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Jay Zeamer Jr.
Jay Zeamer Jr. (July 25, 1918 – March 22, 2007) was a pilot of the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, and received the Medal of Honor for valor during an air mission on June 16, 1943.
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Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, OMI (November 2, 1883 – January 17, 1947) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Jek Yeun Thong
Jek Yeun Thong, DUNU (Second Class), (29 July 1930 – 3 June 2018) was a politician from Singapore who was a prominent first-generation member of the People's Action Party (PAP).
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Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach.
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Jimmy Goins
James Ernest Goins (August 31, 1948 – June 7, 2015) was an American Lumbee politician who served as the Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina from 2004 to 2010.
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Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent Paterno (December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach.
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John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash
John F. Kennedy Jr. was an American lawyer, journalist, magazine publisher, and the son of President John F. Kennedy.
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John Glenn
Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio.
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John Thomas Mullock
John Thomas Mullock (September 27, 1807 – March 26, 1869) was Roman Catholic bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland and did much to establish and develop the church in the region. Born in Limerick, Co. Limerick, Ireland, he died in St. John's and is buried in the crypt of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist.
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Jokela school shooting
The Jokela school shooting occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland.
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Joseph Bryan Nelson
Joseph Bryan Nelson MBE FRSE (14 March 1932 – 29 June 2015) was a British ornithologist, environmental activist and academic.
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Joseph James Forrester
Joseph James Forrester (27 May 1809 – 12 May 1861) was an English merchant and wine shipper.
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Joseph Mercieca
Joseph Mercieca (Ġużeppi Mercieca, 11 November 1928 – 21 March 2016) was a Maltese prelate who served as the second Archbishop of Malta from 1976 to 2006.
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June Rowlands
June Rowlands (née Pendock; May 14, 1924 – December 21, 2017) was a Canadian politician who was the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office.
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Kingstown lifeboat disaster
The Kingstown lifeboat disaster occurred on Christmas Eve 1895 off Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, when the Kingstown lifeboat was capsized while attempting to rescue the crew of the stricken SS Palme.
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Kirkersville shooting
On May 12, 2017, a shooting and hostage crisis took place in the village of Kirkersville, Ohio.
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Kirkwood City Council shooting
The Kirkwood City Council shooting occurred on February 7, 2008, in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States; a suburb of St.
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Laity Kama
Laity Kama (born 1939 in Dakar - 6 May 2001), was a Senegalese lawyer of Serer heritage and the first president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
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Levy Mwanawasa
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (3 September 1948 – 19 August 2008) was the third Republican President of Zambia.
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Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, opposite both Liberty Island and Ellis Island.
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Lie Kim Hok
Lie Kim Hok (1 November 1853 – 6 May 1912) was a ''peranakan'' Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker active in the Dutch East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature".
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Lieutenant governor (Canada)
In Canada, a lieutenant governor (French: lieutenant-gouverneur, or: lieutenant-gouverneure) is the viceregal representative in a provincial jurisdiction of the.
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Lincoln Alexander
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, (January 21, 1922 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer who became the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, the first black federal Cabinet Minister (serving as federal Minister of Labour), the first black Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991.
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Line of duty death
A line of duty death (LODD) is a death in the fire service while on duty at an emergency or drill.
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List of attacks related to secondary schools
This is a list of attacks related to secondary schools that have occurred around the world.
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List of Gilligan's Island episodes
Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television.
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List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.
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Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis Gehrig, born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig (June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), nicknamed "the Iron Horse", was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire professional career (17 seasons) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 until 1939.
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Louis Bamberger
Louis Bamberger (15 May 1855 – 11 March 1944) was Newark, New Jersey's leading citizen from the early 1900s until his death in 1944.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
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Manila hostage crisis
The Manila hostage crisis, officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident, took place when a disgruntled former Philippine National Police officer named Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tourist bus in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines on August 23, 2010.
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Marie Castello
Marie Castello (May 25, 1915 – June 27, 2008), who was known as Madam Marie, was an American fortune teller and psychic reader who worked on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, boardwalk from 1932 until 2008.
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Mary Scranton
Mary Lowe Scranton (April 1918 – December 26, 2015) was an American consultant, community advocate and academic trustee.
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Maurice Bessinger
Lloyd Maurice Bessinger, Sr. (July 14, 1930 – February 22, 2014) was an American BBQ restaurateur and politician noted for his defense of racial segregation.
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Max Soliven
Máximo Villaflor Soliven (September 4, 1929 – November 24, 2006) was a Filipino journalist and newspaper publisher.
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.
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Memorial Day (South Korea)
The day to commemorate the men and women who died while in military service during the Korean War and other significant wars or battles.
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Michael Margaret Stewart
Michael Margaret Stewart, formerly Michael Cowper, (December 28, 1952 – October 22, 2015) was an American lawyer and literacy advocate.
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Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who was the President of Chile twice, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, the first woman in her country to occupy this position.
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Mietek Pemper
Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper (24 March 1920 – 7 June 2011) was a Polish-born Jew and a Holocaust survivor.
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Military rites
Military rites are honors presented at a funeral for a member of a military or police force.
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Modern display of the Confederate flag
The display of flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the "Southern cross" used in the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, the Southern United States in general.
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Moment of silence
A moment of silence is a period of silent contemplation, prayer, reflection, or meditation.
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Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a German police officer.
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Murder of Jo Cox
On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
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Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
On 18 September 2012, Police Constables Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, two Greater Manchester Police officers, were killed by Dale Cregan in a gun and grenade ambush while responding to a report of a burglary in Greater Manchester, England.
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National day of mourning
A national day of mourning is a day marked by mourning and memorial activities observed among the majority of a country's populace.
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National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, also known informally as White Ribbon Day, is a day commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which armed student Marc Lépine murdered fourteen women and injured ten others in the name of "fighting feminism".
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National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism
The National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism is marked every year on June 23 in Canada to mark the anniversary of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland.
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National Fallen Firefighters Memorial
National Fallen Firefighters Memorial since 1990 is officially designated by the United States Congress as the National Memorial to career and volunteer fallen firefighters.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright.
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Nodar Kumaritashvili
Nodar Kumaritashvili (ნოდარ ქუმარიტაშვილი;; 25 November 198812 February 2010) was a Georgian one-man luger who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony.
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Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.
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Ong Teng Cheong
Ong Teng Cheong (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002), was a Singaporean politician and businessman who was President of Singapore from 1993 to 1999.
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Orlando nightclub shooting
On, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Oxford Oratory
The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga (or Oxford Oratory for short) is the Catholic parish church for the centre of Oxford, England.
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Patriot Day
In the United States, Patriot Day, observed as the National Day of Service and Remembrance, occurs on September 11 of each year in memory of the people killed in the September 11 attacks of 2001.
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Paul A. Zahl
Paul Arthur Zahl (1910 Bensenville, Illinois – Oct. 16, 1985 Greenwich, Connecticut) was an explorer and biologist.
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Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed,, (July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus; Benedetto), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 1914 until his death in 1922.
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Presidency of Benigno Aquino III
The Presidency of Benigno Aquino III, also known as Benigno Aquino III Administration, began at noon on June 30, 2010, when he became the fifteenth President of the Philippines, succeeding Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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President of the International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is a corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrius Vikelas on 23 June 1894.
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Public holidays in South Korea
Public holidays in South Korea each belong to one or more of three categories.
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Quebec City mosque shooting
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Remembrance of the Dead
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Rizal Day
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Rosa Parks
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Salug, Zamboanga del Norte
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Santa Fe High School shooting
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Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz
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Union Jack
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USS Alden (DD-211)
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Victory in Europe Day
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Yarnell Hill Fire
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Yom HaShoah
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Yom Hazikaron
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1970 Bhola cyclone
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2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash
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2007 Autism Speaks 400
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2008 Sichuan earthquake
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2009 L'Aquila earthquake
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2010 in Malaysia
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2010 in Singapore
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2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
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2012 Pennsylvania 400
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2012 Philippine Piper Seneca crash
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2013 Boston Red Sox season
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2013 Ottawa bus-train crash
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2013 Sardinia floods
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2014 Gorni Lom explosions
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2014 in Malaysia
The following lists events from 2014 in Malaysia.
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2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack
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2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
The 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill were a series of shootings that occurred on October 22, 2014, at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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2014 Sydney hostage crisis
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2015 Sabah earthquake
The 2015 Sabah earthquake (Gempa Bumi Sabah 2015.) struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia with a moment magnitude of 6.0 on 5 June, which lasted for 30 seconds.
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2015 San Bernardino attack
On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in a terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
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2015 Southeast Asian Games
The 2015 Southeast Asian Games (Sukan Asia Tenggara 2015; 2015年东南亚运动会), officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games (or simply 28th SEA Games), was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event hosted by the city-state of Singapore.
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2015–16 FC Barcelona season
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2016 Brussels bombings
On the morning of 22 March 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels.
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2016 Karrada bombing
On 3 July 2016, ISIS militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed nearly 400 civilians and injured hundreds more.
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2016 Mukilteo shooting
On July 30, 2016, a mass shooting occurred during a house party held by students of the University of Washington and Kamiak High School in the affluent community of Mukilteo, a suburb of Everett and Seattle, Washington.
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2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling.
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2016 shootings of Des Moines police officers
In the early hours of November 2, 2016, two Iowa police officers, Justin Martin and Anthony Beminio, were killed in separate "ambush-style" shootings in and near Des Moines.
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2017 Stockholm attack
On 7 April 2017, in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, a hijacked lorry was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed through a corner of an Åhléns department store.
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2017 Verona bus crash
The 2017 Verona bus crash was a traffic collision that happened around midnight on the night of 20–21 January 2017 on the A4 motorway at San Martino Buon Albergo, near Verona, Italy.
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7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks in London, United Kingdom, which targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the morning rush hour.
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7 July 2005 London bombings memorials and services
Following the events of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the United Kingdom and other nations have devised many ways to honour the dead and missing.
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95th Civil Affairs Brigade
The 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne) is a civil affairs brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast
