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Who shot J.R.? was an advertising catch phrase that American network CBS created in 1980 to promote the television show Dallas. In the final scene of the 1979-1980 season, the character J.R. Ewing, played by Larry Hagman, was shot by an unknown assailant.
The episode, titled A House Divided, was broadcast on March 21, 1980. Viewers […]
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Jarno Sebastian Elg is a Finnish Devil-worshipper, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 23-year-old man, eating some of the body parts and instigating others to participate in a ritual that included torturing the victim and listening to black metal music on November 21, 1998, in Hyvinkaa. Elg’s partners were 17-year-old Terhi […]
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Bill Bixby was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series.
His lead television roles were as Ray Walston’s young friend, reporter Tim O’Hara, in My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) on CBS; Tom Corbett in […]
Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in popular film comedies of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the […]
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The Humberto Vidal Explosion was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996 on the Humberto Vidal shoe store located in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.
Most of the victims were inside the building at the moment of the explosion, but others […]
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The MGM Grand Fire was a 1980 fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, that killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation. The tragedy remains the worst disaster in Nevada history, and the second-worst hotel fire in modern U.S. history, after the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire that killed 119.
At […]
The Birmingham pub bombings were bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Birmingham, England on November 21, 1974 which killed 21 people and injured 182.
The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush, at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town, a basement pub on New Street
A […]
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Operation Ivory Coast was a United States military operation in the Vietnam War.
On November 21, 1970, U.S. Army Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons and Lieutenant Colonel Elliot “Bud” Sydnor led a team of 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in a joint Air Force/Army raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam. […]
The Alaska Highway was constructed during World War II and connects the Continental U.S. to Alaska through Canada.
It runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. Although the highway was completed on October 28, 1942 and its completion was celebrated at Soldier’s Summit on November 21st, the “highway” was not […]
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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge that opened its upper level to the public on November 21, 1964. It connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the larger lower bay.
The bridge is named for Italian explorer […]
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