Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984. Trudeau was the first Canadian Prime Minister born in the 20th century.
Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, dominated […]

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Faucett Flight 251 was a flight that crashed February 29, 1996 at Peruvian time at Arequipa, Peru. The airplane was a Boeing 737, with the registration OB-1451, built in 1968. All 123 people on board died in the accident: 2 Canadians, 42 Chileans, 3 Belgians, 2 Bolivians, 1 Brazilian, 1 Argentinian and 72 Peruvians.
The accident […]

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Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992.
She ultimately received five additional death sentences. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed raped her (or attempted to) while she was working as a prostitute. She […]

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Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins is an American self-help writer and professional speaker. He became well known through the use of firewalking in his seminars. He initially studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming but went on to develop his own methods.
Anthony Robbins calls himself a peak performance coach as opposed to a motivational speaker. Robbins says that he […]

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Agadir is a city in southwest Morocco, capital of the Souss-Massa-Dra region.
The city is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean.
At 15 minutes to midnight on February 29, 1960, Agadir was almost totally destroyed […]

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Joan Henrietta Collins is a Golden Globe Award winning British actress and bestselling author.
Joan Collins has also established herself as an author. In addition to her bestselling novels (Prime Time, Love & Desire & Hate, Infamous, Star Quality, Misfortune’s Daughters) she has written lifestyle books (The Joan Collins Beauty Book, My Secrets, My Friends Secrets […]

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The Admiralty Islands campaign was a series of battles in the New Guinea campaign of World War II. The United States 1st Cavalry Division assaulted Japanese bases on the Admiralty Islands.
The campaign began when the Americans assaulted Los Negros island on 29 February 1944, and officially ended on 18 May 1944. The American victory completed […]

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. He had a long career at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a professor of physics. In 1939,
In […]

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The Winter War began when the Soviet Union led by Josef Stalin attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started World War II.
Because the attack was judged as illegal, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on December 14. Finnish resistance frustrated the […]

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Hattie McDaniel was an American actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
McDaniel was also a professional singer-songwriter, comedienne, stage actress, radio performer and television star. Hattie McDaniel was in fact the first […]

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