Born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, Idaho, Lana Turner was an Academy Award-nominated American film actress.
On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles. Off-screen, she led a stormy and colorful private life which included seven husbands and numerous lovers. Turner earned the nickname […]

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The Sampoong Department Store collapse was a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995 in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea.
The collapse is the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history, 501 people were killed and 937 injured. It was a direct result of the deliberate use of substandard construction materials, remarkably poor […]

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The Prince’s Trust is a UK based charity headed by HRH The Prince of Wales.
It provides help, training, financial, and practical support to UK citizens aged between fourteen and thirty. It focuses on those who have struggled in education or find themselves unemployed for a long time. It relies on donations from the public along […]

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Jayne Mansfield  was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood.
One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield was a Playmate of the Month in Playboy. She won the Theatre World Award, Golden Globe and Golden Laurel. Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her […]

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STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis, which lifted off from launch pad 39A on June 27, 1995 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir. […]

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Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago nation of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 km east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.
Seychelles has the smallest population of any sovereign state of Africa. The Seychelles became a crown colony separate from Mauritius in 1903 and independence was granted […]

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María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón, better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón assumed the position, and was sworn in as President of Argentina on the death of her husband President Juan Perón.
At the time of his death, Juan Perón was in his third term as president and Isabel had been serving as vice president. […]

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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, was enacted on June 29, 1956, when a hospitalized Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this bill into law.
Appropriating $25 billion for the construction of 40,000 miles of interstate highways over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project […]

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Marcel-François Lefebvre, better known as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Following a career as a missionary in Africa with the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council. In 1970, Lefebvre founded the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which […]

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The Constitution of Ukraine was adopted at the 5th session of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine, on June 28, 1996.
The constitution was passed with 315 ayes out of 450 possible (300 ayes minimum). The Constitution is the fundamental law of the land: laws and other normative legal acts must conform to it. The right […]

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