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Casey Wasserman appointed chair of LA 2028 Olympic organizing committee On January 14, 2015, sports executive Casey Wasserman was named chairman of the Los Angeles bi...
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On July 16, 2014, during the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas, four Palestinian children from the Bakr family were killed in a strike near the fishing harbor of ...
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Reports in Israel raised serious concerns that Ethiopian Jewish women were given long-term birth control injections without full consent. The allegations centered on t...
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On February 12, 2010, U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a nighttime raid in Khataba village, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The operation targeted a compound ...
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Ashley Madison is an online dating and social networking service launched on January 21, 2002. It was founded by Darren J. Morgenstern and Noel Biderman, and later ope...
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El Mozote massacre On December 11, 1981, Salvadoran Army units carried out a massacre in the village of El Mozote in Morazán Department, El Salvador. Soldiers of the ...
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The Watergate Scandal From Break-In To Presidential Resignation On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquart...
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Bangladesh Genocide On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in Dhaka and other major cities of East Pakistan, targeting Bengali nationalis...
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Attribution History of Golda Meir Quote on Children and Conflict Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. A statement widely attribu...
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Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen became one of the few reporters to directly question Jack Ruby during his 1964 trial for the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. Kilgallen, a we...
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What it was The Lavon Affair, also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt in 1954, carried out by Israeli military i...
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The Spanish Civil War began between Republicans and Nationalists, reflecting ideological battles over fascism, socialism, and democracy, with international implications.
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Financial backers of Hitler in 1933 In early 1933, Adolf Hitler received financial support from multiple sources as he rose to power in Germany. Major contributions c...
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Before Hitler rose to power, major banks and financiers profited from high interest rates in Germany. During the Weimar Republic, government bonds often carried 6-10% ...
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The English Civil War began between Royalists and Parliamentarians, reflecting conflicts over monarchy, parliamentary power, and religious freedom.
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The revolt led by Gordian II was part of a larger uprising against the reigning emperor Maximinus Thrax. Gordian II, alongside his father Gordian I, was proclaimed emp...
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Henry Kissinger served as director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Special Studies Project during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The project examined major problems ...
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c. 2580–2560 BCE — Khufu's Great Pyramid rises at Giza and becomes the largest pyramid ever constructed in Egypt. Originally about 146.6 meters high, it contains milli...
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c. 2600–2500 BCE — Archaeology points toward organized Egyptian labor forces rather than armies of foreign slaves. Workers lived in settlements near Giza, received foo...
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14 September 1930 — The Nazi electoral breakthrough reflects intensive use of rallies, posters, newspapers, aircraft tours, slogans and targeted political messaging. N...
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28 June 1919 — Many German political movements interpret Versailles as a dictated peace and focus particularly on territorial losses, reparations and the treaty's resp...
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