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Jamaica's Elaine Thompson Herah breaks Florence Griffith Joyner's record in 100m final | Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah cemented her legacy as one of the greatest sprinters of all-time Saturday morning.
Thompson-Herah, crossed the finish line in 10.61 seconds, breaking Florence Griffith Joyner's 33-year-old Olympic record in the process.
Thompson-Herah now holds the second-fastest time ever in the women's... | Break historical records | null | null |
Irk Valley Junction rail crash |
The Irk Valley Junction rail crash occurred on 15 August 1953 at Collyhurst, just over a mile from Manchester Victoria station. At that point, the electrified line to Bury passes through Irk Valley Junction, so called because it lies on a viaduct above the River Irk. At 07:40 on the morning of 15 August 1953, the 07:... | Train collisions | null | null |
At least 40 dead, hundreds missing after Brazil dam collapses | BRUMADINHO, Brazil – Brazilian officials on Sunday suspended the search for potential survivors of a dam collapse that has killed at least 40 people amid fears that another nearby dam owned by the same company was also at risk of breaching. Authorities were evacuating several neighborhoods in the southeastern city of B... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Saturday GRiZ concert at Riverfront Park cancelled due to severe weather | WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Saturday’s GRiZ concert at Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park has been cancelled due to severe weather, the venue announced on Twitter. Due to severe weather in the vicinity, Night 2 of GRiZMAS in JULY will not be able to continue tonight. The 7/31 show has been officially cancelled. Ti... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Bank robbed Tuesday afternoon in Gainesville | Gainesville — Wednesday evening, Police say they arrested 60-year-old Jay Edward Cocuzzo, and charged him with one county of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery. -- Around 1:30 PM Tuesday, Gainesville Police say a man robbed the PNC Bank at NW 43rd Street and Newberry Road. Police say the suspect told a tell... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Mastermyne (ASX:MYE) worker killed at Gregory Crinum mine, QLD | When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to go to the desired page. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Mastermyne Group (MYE) has confirmed the death of a coal mine worker yesterday at the Sojitz Blue Gregory Crinum mine in Central Queensland. In a sta... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Southeast Airlines Flight 308 crash | A-337
File No. 1-0021
CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT
ADOPTED: September 8, 1959
RELEASED: September 11, 1959
SOUTHEAST AIRLINES DC-3, N 18941, NEAR TRI-CITY AIRPORT,BRISTOL, TENNESSEE, JANUARY 8, 1959
SYNOPSIS
On January 8, 1959, about 2032 e. s. t., a DC-3, Southeast Airlines Flight 308, stru... | Air crash | null | null |
General strike of 1956 | The Finnish general strike of 1956 is the latest of the three general strikes in Finnish history; there have also been general strikes in 1905 and 1917. The 1956 strike occurred from March 1 to March 20, 1956. About 500,000 Finnish citizens took part in the strike. [1]
Following the end of post-war price control measu... | Strike | null | null |
President establishes Task Force for Green Agriculture | President Rajapaksa appointed this Task Force Friday last (15) through an Extraordinary Gazette notification, the President’s Media Division said. The Task Force chaired by Vijith Welikala has 14 members. Vernon Perera, Additional Secretary to the President, has been appointed as Secretary of the said Task Force. Throu... | Organization Established | null | null |
John Mulaney Divorcing Anna Marie Tendler: What He's Said Over the Years About Their Relationship | PEOPLE confirmed that John Mulaney and Anna Marie Tendler have split after six years of marriage
Throughout their nearly seven-year marriage, John Mulaney has often spoke fondly about his now-estranged wife, Anna Marie Tendler.
On Monday, a rep for Mulaney, 38, confirmed to PEOPLE that he and Tendler, 35, have split a... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Ex-boxer who punched cop faces longest sentence yet in U.S. Capitol riot | File photo: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump climb on walls at the U.S. Capitol. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - A former boxer charged with punching a Washington police officer in the head during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol faces a sentence of up to 51 months in prison after pl... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Mysterious jaguar deaths now under investigation in Brazil | Thanks to tracking collars, federal police are investigating the possible poisoning deaths of two jaguars in the Pantanal.
A male jaguar emerges from the water hyacinth at the edge of a tributary of the Cuiaba River, in Brazil. As ranchers graze their livestock in former jaguar territory, attacks on cattle are not unco... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
1983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash | The 1983 Chosonminhang Il-62 crash occurred on 1 July 1983 when an Ilyushin Il-62M being operated by the flag carrier airline of North Korea, Chosonminhang, crashed into mountainous terrain in the West African country of Guinea. All 23 people aboard were killed. The aircraft was flying from Pyongyang with construction ... | Air crash | null | null |
Detroit pot dispensary swaying after road buckles, demolished on Tuesday | Demo started Tuesday at Stash Detroit, a marijuana dispensary in southwest Detroit that was sitting on top of a section of the city that suddenly buckled over the weekend.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Stash Detroit has been torn down on Tuesday after it was damaged when Dearborn Street buckled over the weekend and, according to F... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Blood moon appears on Friday | Friday night brought an amazing sight in the night sky - something called a blood moon that happens as part of a total lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned. That means the Earth moves directly in between the Sun and Moon, blocking the sunlight. The eclipse then happens because... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Crockett bank robbery suspect posted $350K, was released from jail | CROCKETT, TX (KTRE) - A Crockett man who is suspected of robbing the town's Citizens National Bank at gunpoint early Tuesday morning was released from the Houston County Jail Thursday after he posted a bail amount of $350,000. Leon Tran, a 20-year-old former employee of the bank, was arrested at a home in College Stati... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2008 British teacher's strike |
The NUT teacher strike was a 24-hour strike by teachers on 24 April 2008, over the issue of pay. It was the largest strike in Britain for more than 20 years. [1][2] It is also believed that up to 8000 schools were affected by this strike. There was also a strike by the UCU, which is the teachers' trade union for furth... | Strike | null | null |
Volcanic Eruptions In ‘Vital Infrastructure Hotspots’ Could Spark Global Catastrophe | Movies and media like to depict the eruption of so-called supervolcanoes - like Yellowstone - as an earth-shattering catastrophe. A supervolcano is defined as a volcano that has had at least one explosion of magnitude 8, the highest ranking on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, or VEI, meaning it has released more than 1,... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Croatia becomes 28th EU member state | Croatia becomes 28th EU member state
EU leaders in Zagreb on Sunday (Photo: ec.europa.eu )
By Honor Mahony
Brussels, 1. Jul 2013, 09:03
Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union at midnight Sunday (1 July), a decade after it started the process and less than 20 years after the end of its war of independence ... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Air Caraïbes Flight 1501 crash | Air Caraïbes Flight 1501 (TX1501/FWI1501) was a scheduled international passenger flight, flying from Saint Martin Airport in the Dutch overseas territory of Sint Maarten to Saint Barthélemy Airport which was in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe at that time. The flight was operated by Air Caraïbes, a Caribbean ... | Air crash | null | null |
2019 Indian floods |
The 2019 Indian floods were a series of floods that affected over thirteen states in late July and early August 2019, due to excessive rains. At least 200 people died and about a million people were displaced. Karnataka and Maharashtra were the most severely affected states. People died but many were rescued with the... | Floods | null | null |
WTO has selected South Africa to establish the first mRNA technology transfer hub | The World Health Organisation has selected South Africa to establish the first mRNA technology transfer hub. This is to boost vaccine manufacturing abilities in the region , as Africa continues to struggle in vaccine procurement. More than 50 proposals were submitted to the WHO by companies offering to transfer technol... | Organization Established | null | null |
Olympics Day 15 highlights Allyson Felix wins record 11th medal; U.S. men’s 4x400 team also takes gold | U.S. diver Jordan Windle’s adoption story and advocacy gains renewed attention Allyson Felix wins 11th Olympic medal in 4x400 relay, becomes most decorated U.S. track and field athlete
Wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt wins bronze
Jakob Ingebrigtsen makes late push to edge Timothy Cheruiyot in men’s 1,500-meter final
Kyle Sny... | Break historical records | null | null |
2019 Bolivian protests |
The 2019 Bolivian protests were protests and marches from 21 October 2019 until late November of that year in Bolivia, in response to claims of electoral fraud in the 2019 general election of 20 October. After 11 November 2019, there were protests by supporters of the outgoing government in response to Jeanine ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
August 2020 California lightning wildfires |
The August 2020 California lightning wildfires (also referred to as the August lightning siege or August wildfire siege) were a series of 650 wildfires that ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual c... | Fire | null | null |
Through cash grants, EU humanitarian aid has helped Galmo and her family cope with the infestation. | Galmo Kiyo Waariyo is a farmer living in Lafto village, Dubuluk woreda of Borena zone, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The 58-year-old mother is the sole breadwinner for her family of 8 children - 3 girls and 5 boys, with 3 of the children below the age of 5 – and a chronically ill family member. She witnessed the arrival... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Richard Tingler on charges of armed bank robbery | Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Richard Tingler, age 56, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, on charges of armed bank robbery and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence. The sentence was imposed on Apr... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash | On 17 March 2018, a Piper PA-23 Apache crashed into a residential area in Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines, killing all five passengers on board and five others on the ground. [1][2]
The aircraft involved was a six-seater Piper PA-23 light aircraft operated by Lite Air Express, with tail number RP-C299. [3]
The Civil A... | Air crash | null | null |
2003 Santa Fe flood | This article is about the flooding of Santa Fe, capital of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in April 2003. Santa Fe is the fifth most populated city in Argentina (~370,000 inhabitants), and it is surrounded by rivers. The flooding was described as the worst since the city was founded in 1573. [1]
At the end of Apr... | Floods | null | null |
The United States and the Republic of Korea yesterday, April 1, successfully concluded a free trade agreement | The United States and the Republic of Korea yesterday, April 1, successfully concluded a free trade agreement that will create economic opportunities for their people and enhance their economic and strategic partnership.
“This is a historic moment for our two countries. The United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KO... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Accused bank robber to face court | They allege the 45 year old entered the Suncorp bank at Coolangatta just before midday (AEST) and threatened staff, before leaving with cash. The Elanora man ran down the road and through a nearby arcade where a member of the public grabbed him and held on to him until police arrived. The accused man has been charged w... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
As Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Akkineni call it quits, we take a look at other high-profile Bollywood divorces | As Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Akkineni call it quits, we take a look at other high-profile Bollywood divorces
From Hrithik's split to Karisma Kapoor’s divorce, here’s a spectrum of failed marriages
Published: October 04, 2021 20:54
Nilanjana G. Javed, Senior Web Editor
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CELEBRITY AFFAIR: Let’s face it, we all ... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
3 injured after explosion, collapse at Laytonsville landscape business | A Laytonsville, Md. business was significantly damaged by a gas explosion early Tuesday. (Courtesy MCFRS/Jason Blake)
Courtesy MCFRS/Jason Blake
A Laytonsville, Md. business was significantly damaged by a gas explosion early Tuesday. (Courtesy MCFRS/Jason Blake)
Courtesy MCFRS/Jason Blake
A Laytonsville, Md. business w... | Gas explosion | null | null |
China is working on a relay satellite to support lunar polar missions | China is developing a new lunar relay satellite to support future exploration missions to the south pole of the moon. The country is planning to send the Chang’e-7 spacecraft to the lunar south pole around 2024. Objectives include survey the region and seek evidence of water ice using an orbiter, lander, rover and a ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Gas Explosion Destroys Residential Building in Russia, 3 Dead | International and Arab News Three people died, including an 11-year-old girl, after a gas explosion caused a two-story apartment building to partially collapse in a Russian village early on Saturday, head of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov said.
Video footage showed major structural damage to the building in... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Hawaii has prime view for celestial combo | The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a supermoon this week for a cosmic show. This super “blood” moon will be visible Wednesday across the Pacific. A blue moon turns red during a phase in a lunar eclipse in Honolulu. The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a s... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Entire Family Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Hurricane Ida Takes Out Power | A family of three has died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Louisiana due to the use of a poorly ventilated emergency generator they set up after their power went out during Hurricane Ida.
Ida made landfall in the U.S. at Port Fourchon in Louisiana at around noon CT (1:00 p.m. ET) on Sunday with powerful 150 mph winds... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
12 Of The Most Casual, Low-Key Celebrity Wedding Dresses Of All Time | Contrary to every Hollywood film ever, getting married doesn't have to involve a pastry puff-inspired wedding dress, elaborate hair and makeup and a cringe-worthy posed photos. In fact, often its the good people of Hollywood (AKA the movie stars we've grown to know and love) who shirk elaborate nuptials in favour of so... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
May 2014 San Diego County wildfires | The May 2014 San Diego County wildfires were a swarm of 20 wildfires that erupted during May 2014, in San Diego County, California, during severe Santa Ana Wind conditions, historic drought conditions, and a heat wave. The main event during mid-May was preceded by a precursor fire that ignited on May 5. The Bernardo Fi... | Fire | null | null |
Dahlerau train disaster |
The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on May 27, 1971, in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on. Forty-six people perished in the accident; forty-one were senior year pupils of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in R... | Train collisions | null | null |
1952 Damxung earthquake | The 2008 Damxung earthquake hit Damxung County, Xizang (Tibet), west of Lhasa, in the People's Republic of China around 16:30 China Standard Time on October 6. The Chinese state media reported that the earthquake caused 10 deaths as of October 7. [2] Three aftershocks above magnitude 5 followed. [4][5][6]
The 2008 Damx... | Earthquakes | null | null |
President Trump speaks at the "Namaste Trump" event at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday | President Trump speaks at the "Namaste Trump" event at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks on. Trump said the two leaders were discussing a possible trade deal and called Modi "a very tough negotiator."
... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
2008 Macedonian Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 crash | The 2008 Macedonian Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 crash occurred on Saturday, 12 January 2008, when a Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter belonging to the Macedonian military, crashed 50–100 metres[2][3] from the village of Blace, situated in the region of Katlanovo,[4] approximately 10–15 kilometres south-east of Skopje, Macedoni... | Air crash | null | null |
Northeast Airlines Flight 258 crash | (May 13, 2021) Northeast Airlines flight 258 was making its final approach to Nantucket Memorial Airport late on a hot and humid August night in 1958. The plane had left JFK at 10:30 p.m. and by the time it reached Nantucket the fog had rolled in thick. Just a few hundred yards from the runway, the wing of the airplane... | Air crash | null | null |
34 Million People Are Just ‘One Step Away From Starvation’: UN Report | Global hunger has increased at an alarming rate over the last few years and has accelerated because of the coronavirus pandemic. As it stands, millions are at risk of starvation. The United Nations’ Global Goal 2 calls for an end to world hunger by 2030, and this can only be achieved if countries commit to defeating th... | Famine | null | null |
2016–17 South America floods | From December 2016 and continuing until May 2017, much of western and central South America was plagued by persistent heavy rain events. In Peru, one of the most severely impacted nations, it has been referred to as the 2017 Coastal Niño (Spanish: El Niño costero de 2017). The flooding was preceded by drought-like cond... | Floods | null | null |
Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire |
On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng (吉林宝源丰) poultry processing plant in Mishazi (米沙子镇),[2] a town about 35 km (22 mi) from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic of China, killed at least 120 people. [3][4] More than 60 others were hospitalised with injuries. [3]
The poultry slaughterhouse was e... | Fire | null | null |
1972 Black Hills flood |
The Black Hills Flood of 1972, also known as the Rapid City Flood, was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history, and one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. The flood took place on June 9–10, 1972[1] in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota. 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in a small area over the Black H... | Floods | null | null |
1968 Red Square demonstration |
The 1968 Red Square demonstration (Russian: Демонстра́ция 25 а́вгуста 1968 го́да) took place in Moscow on 25 August 1968. It was a protest by eight demonstrators against the invasion of Czechoslovakia on the night of 20–21 August 1968 by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, crushing the Prague Spring, the cha... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Terrebonne Parish officials say they have received numerous calls about carbon monoxide poisoning in the wake of Hurricane Ida. | Updated: 1:35 PM CDT Sep 4, 2021
WDSU Digital Team
Terrebonne Parish officials say they have received numerous calls about carbon monoxide poisoning in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Parish officials said as of Saturday morning, local fire departments have received several calls reporting poisoning in residents. All were t... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Air France Flight 009 crash | Air France Flight 009 was a scheduled international flight that crashed into a mountain while attempting to land at Santa Maria Airport, Azores on a stopover during a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly Airport to New York City. All 48 people on board were killed. The aircraft involved was a Lockhe... | Air crash | null | null |
1921 Mari wildfires | Wildfires in the Mari Autonomous Oblast, in the east of European Russia, occurred in the summer of 1921. Damage included 2,660 square kilometres of pine forest burned off, with serious repercussions for industry in the area, already paralyzed by the Povolzhye famine. The wildfires led to 35 human and 1,000 cattle death... | Fire | null | null |
2017–2018 Russian protests |
The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, which were primarily concerned with suppressing corruption in the Russian government (from 26 March 2017 through spring 2018) and abandoning the planned retirement age hike (from 1... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Sydney desalination plant not toxic to marine life and may soon restart as dam levels drop | Sydney desalination plant not toxic to marine life and may soon restart as dam levels drop
A study into Sydney's desalination plant has found it is not toxic to marine life, as the drought-stricken state prepares to switch it on.
The University of New South Wales study — conducted off the coast of Kurnell in Sydney's ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Air Wisconsin Flight 965 crash | Air Wisconsin Flight 965 (registration N650S) was a flight operated by Air Wisconsin that crashed near Valley, Nebraska, on June 12, 1980. The crash was caused by poor weather conditions making the engines fail and failure to recontrol the aircraft. [1]
The aircraft operating Flight 965, a Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II... | Air crash | null | null |
2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak |
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease in farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million cows and sheep were killed in an eventually successful attempt to halt the disease. [1]... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Inbound geomagnetic solar storm: Northern lights possible Saturday night | NOAA expects the wave of energy from a solar storm to arrive Saturday night. This could trigger waves of northern lights across mainly the Upper Midwest. We will have to wait and see if the lights will be visible all the way down to St. Louis. One thing is for sure, our sky will be clearing just in time. Tips on rea... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Etna: Europe's highest active volcano | Around Mount Etna in Sicily, you can really get a sense of the power of nature especially as the majestic volcano could erupt at any time. A risk we took into account for part 15 of our series "Extreme Places". Etna remains active so seeing lava emerge from the volcano on Sicily is not a rare sight Etna is constantly g... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Twenty-year-old man killed in crash near Williams in the Wheatbelt | Police say the man was driving north along Narrakine Road when his car left the road about 4.45am on Saturday. The silver Toyota Corolla sedan hit a tree about 3km south of Albany Highway, north-west of the Williams townsite. The driver, a 20-year-old man, died of his injuries at the scene. Major crash squad officers a... | Road Crash | null | null |
New Zealand’s troubled waters | New Zealand’s waterways are some of the most degraded in the developed world. Will the Ardern government clean it up or will Māori take control? By Yaara Bou Melhem in New Zealand
Foreign Correspondent
In New Zealand’s Southern Alps, braided rivers radiate turquoise from the glacial flows coming off snow-capped mountai... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Ten countries to join EU on May 1st, 2004 | Ten countries to join EU on May 1st, 2004
Mon, Nov 18, 2002, 00:00
European Union foreign ministers agreed today that the entry into the bloc of 10 countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean will take place on May 1st, 2004, officials said.
Several of the candidate nations, notably Poland, had been press... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Here's UNH's plan to respond to concerns about sex assault on campus | DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire is promising to regularly survey students about sexual misconduct, bolster violence prevention staffing and create a dashboard with data showing reports of sexual misconduct.
Two months after school police launched an investigation into an alleged on-campus sexual assault , UNH... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Police alerted over financial irregularities at St Mirren FC | POLICE Scotland have been alerted to financial irregularities at part-fan-owned St Mirren FC involving commercial agreements and possible non-payment of tax and national insurance.
The Scottish Premiership club has called in forensic accountants to carry out what they call a "thorough review of a number of areas of its... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
China ‘indefinitely’ suspends economic dialogue with Australia | BEIJING — Strained relations between China and Australia took a turn for the worse Thursday after Beijing said it has “indefinitely” suspended all activity under a high-level economic dialogue with one if its largest source of imports.
It was not immediately clear what impact the announcement would have on trade betwee... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Deep sea robots will let us find millions of shipwrecks, says man who discovered Titanic | A revolutionary new class of amphibious vehicle will transform the search for lost vessels on the ocean floor, says marine archaeologist Dr Robert Ballard He is the celebrated deep-sea explorer who discovered the Titanic, as well as the German battleship Bismarck and other historic sunken vessels around the world. Now ... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Search location by ZIP code | Graduates got a little something extra along with their diplomas at Quincy College's commencement ceremony Friday. Approximately 250 of them received $1,000, split between two envelopes.
But there's a catch. Those envelopes have instructions. The gifts came from commencement speaker Robert Hale, CEO of Granite Telecomm... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Winecoff Hotel fire |
The Winecoff Hotel fire of December 7, 1946, was the deadliest hotel fire in United States history, killing 119 hotel occupants, including the hotel's original owners. Located at 176 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Winecoff Hotel was advertised as "absolutely fireproof". While the ho... | Fire | null | null |
Democratic Republic of the Congo declares end of 12th Ebola Virus Disease outbreak | ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 03 May 2020. The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today declared an end to the 12th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the North Kivu Province, three months after the outbreak began. This outbreak is a resurgence of cases from a survivor of the 10th EVD outbreak in... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Darwin Harbour oil spill response by EPA questioned |
The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority's (EPA) response to an oil spill in Darwin Harbour has been "dismal," according to the peak body for recreational fishers.
The spill of a fuel oil was reported to Darwin Port at 4:00am on Friday.
The Amateur Fishermen's Association of the Northern Territory (AFAN... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
2017 Batangas earthquakes |
The 2017 Batangas earthquakes were an earthquake swarm[2] that occurred from early April to mid-August 2017, affecting the province of Batangas in the Philippines and other nearby areas. The first major earthquake occurred on April 4 at 8:58 pm Philippine Standard Time, with a surface wave magnitude of 5.5 off the coa... | Earthquakes | null | null |
UK Firefighter strike 2002 | The 2002–2003 UK firefighter dispute began when the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) voted to take strike action in an attempt to secure a better salary. The FBU demanded a 39 percent increase in pay, which would have brought the average firefighter's wage to around £30,000. It balloted its members for a strike in late 2002 a... | Strike | null | null |
22 hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at Tainan swimming pool | 8 adults and 14 children were hospitalized after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at Tainan YMCA
2021/01/08 13:02
(CNA photo)
Eight adults and 14 children were hospitalized on Thursday after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) swimming pool in Tainan, southern ... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
LIST: Closure status for CCISD, other area school districts | and last updated 2021-09-13 19:49:18-04 As Tropical Storm Nicholas approaches the Coastal Bend, school districts across the area prepare as coastal flooding and tropical-storm-force winds are expected. Here's a list of school closures provided by the school districts. Corpus Christi Independent School District - Classe... | Organization Closed | null | null |
American Sydney McLaughlin wipes out own world record to seize gold in women's 400m hurdles | Only one of the world's best hurdlers could win the Olympic gold medal — and McLaughlin came out ahead in the latest instalment of the best rivalry in track.
The 21-year-old from New Jersey won the 400-metre hurdles title Wednesday, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another history-making day on the Olympic oval.
McLau... | Break historical records | null | null |
2012 Romanian protests |
The 2012 Romanian protests were a series of protests and civil manifestations triggered by the introduction of new health reform legislation. In particular, President Traian Băsescu criticized the Deputy Minister of Health, Raed Arafat, on a Romanian television broadcast. The protests became violent, with both protes... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
FBI Seeks Second Suspect in Killing of Security Guard During Gary Bank Robbery | The FBI was searching for a second person believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of a security guard during a robbery at a Gary, Indiana, bank Friday, authorities said. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports. The FBI was searching for a second person believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of a sec... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Great Fire of 1852 | The Great Fire of 1852 was a fire in Montreal that began on July 8, 1852, and left as many as 10,000 people homeless (at a time when the city's population was only 57,000) and destroyed almost half of the city's housing. The fire occurred at a time when the city's recently constructed reservoir, located at the site of ... | Fire | null | null |
WFP warns 3 million more now ‘teetering on the edge of famine’ | The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries, has risen to 45 million - up by three million this year - as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year, and 27 million in 2019, the agency s... | Famine | null | null |
Nepal Airlines Flight 555 crash | . Nepal Airlines Flight 555 was a short domestic scheduled flight from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport in Nepal of about 20 minutes' flying time, operated by Nepal Airlines. On 16 May 2013 the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft operating the flight crashed while landing at Jomsom Airport. Seven of the twen... | Air crash | null | null |
Indian Army to hold military exercises with African nations in Pune | The Indian Army will conduct military exercises with African nations at the Aundh Military station and College of Military Engineering in Pune. Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique and Uganda will be participating in the joint military exercise. The joint exe... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Chandra Grahan 2021 fasting rules: What to eat, what to avoid, mantras to chant during Lunar Eclipse | Chandra Grahan 2021 fasting rules: What to eat, what to avoid, mantras to chant during Lunar Eclipse A total lunar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. It would be the first Lunar Eclipse of the year 2021. This lunar eclipse will be a magnificent one as it will be a supermoon. A supermoon is when a lunar ecl... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Great New York City Fire of 1845 |
The Great New York City Fire of 1845 broke out on July 19, 1845, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The fire started in a whale oil and candle manufacturing establishment and quickly spread to other wooden structures. It reached a warehouse on Broad Street where combustible saltpeter was stored and caused a massive e... | Fire | null | null |
Will's Forest: Raleigh park holds clues to historic legend of shipwrecked man freed from slavery | As families stroll, picnic and play by the trees in Fred Fletcher Park, many have no idea the surrounding area once held a 19th century mansion – and a mysterious legend of a castaway named Will, who escaped a slave ship and lived in the woods on the land that belonged to Joel Lane, commonly known as the 'Father of Ral... | Shipwreck | null | null |
The outcome of the Labour leadership election between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will be announced shortly. | The outcome of the Labour leadership election between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will be announced shortly.
The winner will be unveiled in Liverpool where the party is preparing to hold its annual conference.
Mr Smith's challenge to the current Labour leader, who was only elected a year ago, follows months of tension... | Government Job change - Election | null | null |
Well-known nonprofits merge to extend regional reach in Northwest Arkansas | Two nonprofit groups in Northwest Arkansas have merged into one organization that should be better positioned to distribute more scholarship dollars to its recipients. Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas (SPSFNWA) and Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Benton County (SPSFBC) — both independent 501(c)(3)... | Organization Merge | null | null |
2006 European Women's Handball Championship | The 2006 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in Sweden from 7 to 17 December. It was won by Norway after beating Russia 27–24 in the final match. This championship was also the European qualifying event for 2008 Olympics, and Norway earned a spot at the 2008 Games for being the European champion. If Nor... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Two Sarasota Philanthropic Educational Organization chapters merge | Chapters CE and CY realized that they would be stronger together and recently formed a merger. The group celebrated the merger at the newly renovated Phillippi Park Gazebo. The theme was “Chapters CE-CY Sailing Together.” Since 1869, P.E.O. has helped more than 113,000 women pursue educational goals by providing over ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
UFC 163 | UFC 163: Aldo vs. Korean Zombie[3] was a mixed martial arts event held on August 3, 2013, at the HSBC Arena in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. [4]
The main event was expected to feature current UFC Featherweight Champion, José Aldo taking on future UFC Lightweight Champion, Anthony Pettis. [5] However, in mid-June Pettis pul... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Wright State University 2019 faculty strike | The Wright State University 2019 faculty strike was a strike organized by the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in response to employment conditions imposed by the university. The strike began on January 22, 2019, after nearly two years of failed contract negotiations betw... | Strike | null | null |
The BHG department store was shut on Tuesday for cleaning and disinfecting works | SINGAPORE - The BHG department store in Bugis Junction was shut on Tuesday (Aug 24) for cleaning and disinfecting works, after a member of its staff tested positive for Covid-19. BHG announced on Tuesday the store closure on its Facebook page, saying its staff member had tested positive the day before. “We have since ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
More than 350,000 people facing famine in Ethiopia's Tigray region | Millions more require support in the war-torn region, the UN said, 'to avert further slides towards famine' Around 350,000 people are facing extreme scarcity of food in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, renewing memories of a widespread famine that left an estimated one million people dead in the 1980s. The United Nat... | Famine | null | null |
Canadian Nobel Prize winner thought congratulatory call was a prank | TORONTO -- A Canadian who shared the Nobel Prize in economics thought a middle-of-the-night phone call to congratulate him on the award was a prank from an old friend. David Card, an economics professor of the University of California, Berkeley who is originally from Guelph, Ont., recently won the Nobel Prize in econ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
China on agenda in Payne, Dutton talks with US counterparts | Measures to counter China’s trade strikes and other “grey zone” attacks will top the agenda when Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton travel to the United States later this month for talks with the Biden administration.
Senator Payne and Mr Dutton will meet US Secretary of State Tony Blinken ... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
December 2016 Polish protests | Protesters
Polish Government
The Polish Sejm crisis, 16 December 2016—12 January 2017, was a period of political stalemate in Poland's national legislature, resulting from an attempt to limit freedom of the press at the Sejm buildings in Warsaw, Poland. The attempt to restrict press access to Sejm members and deliber... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
IR opposition group established to target Yokohama mayoral elections | A group of residents who had previously requested a referendum regarding a Yokohama IR have established a new organization targeting the mayoral election this summer, according to the Mainichi Shimbun. The purpose will be to support those candidates opposing an IR. Setsu Kobayashi, Professor Emeritus of Keio University... | Organization Established | null | null |
Multiple tsunami warnings now lifted | The largest waves caused by the 8.1 magnitude earthquake have now passed and everyone who evacuated can now return, but people are still being warned to stay away from the shore. Multiple tsunami warnings were issued by Civil Defence this morning after a 8.1 magnitude quake near the Kermadec Islands. It was the third e... | Tsunamis | null | null |
2 Years After Georgia Shipwreck, Heavy Lifting Nearly Done | SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two years after a cargo ship overturned along the Georgia coast, heavy lifting to remove most of the vessel is nearly done _ though further breakdown of the wreckage and final cleanup is expected to take several more months. Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the capsizing of the South Kore... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starlink satellites in months | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its first full stack of Starlink broadband satellites since May tonight (Sept. 13) and you can watch the action live online. The private spaceflight company will launch a full stack of 60 Starlink satellites on one of its fleet leaders, a veteran Falcon 9 dubbed B1049. The fre... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Singapore Tightens Restrictions, U.S. Deaths Peak: Virus Update | (Bloomberg) -- The number of people dying with Covid-19 in U.S. hospitals appears to have peaked, the latest sign of reprieve after the delta variant fueled record spikes in infections in some states. President Joe Biden said 60 million Americans who got the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccine will soon be able to get a bo... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Tasmanian couple on a mission to clean up their neighbourhood and its image |
Mark Bartlett and Angela Knight pull on their gloves and don their hi-vis vests, ready for another day of picking up other people's garbage.
They traipse down a grassy dirt road running behind the waste transfer station in Brighton, near Hobart, with empty plastic bags in hand. It is just one of many local spots they ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
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