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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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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 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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Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova was a Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia. She was shot to death in her apartment building on November 20, 1998.
Starovoitova was gunned down in the entryway of her apartment building on November 20, 1998. Her aide, Ruslan Linkov, […]
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The Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20, 1979 was an armed attack and takeover by “at least 500″ armed Islamic fundamentalist dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam, had arrived in the form of one of the insurgents’ […]
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Zarya was the first module of the International Space Station and she launched November 20, 1998. The FGB provided electrical power, storage, propulsion, and guidance to the ISS during the initial stage of assembly.
As other modules with more specialized functionality are constructed, the Zarya’s role will primarily be storage, both inside the pressurized section and […]
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The Slansky trial was a show trial against elements of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia who were thought to have adopted the line of the maverick Yugoslav leader Josip Tito.
On November 20, 1952, Rudolf Slansky, General Secretary of the KSC, and 13 other Communist leaders or bureaucrats, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating […]
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from November 20, 1945 to 1949, at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
The first and best known of these […]
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