Year | Description | Category |
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2017 | Hollywood film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
2017 | Chinese film Youth was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing non-English movies in the world. | Release Date |
2017 | Supercentenarian from Spain, Ana MarĂa Vela Rubio died at the age of 116 years, 47 days. | Death day |
2013 | American actress Joan Fontaine died. | Death day |
2005 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Enrico Paoli died. | Death day |
1997 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Pier Luigi Basso was born. | Birthday |
1997 | Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 aircraft incident at Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killed 85 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1986 | Chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan, Djakhangir Agaragimov was born. | Birthday |
1966 | West Indian cricketer Carl Hooper was born. | Birthday |
1964 | Italy's first artificial satellite San Marco 1 was launched. | Launch Day |
1962 | English actor Charles Laughton died. | Death day |
1958 | Austrian-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli died. | Death day |
1943 | British mathematician and computer scientist Bernard de Neumann was born. | Birthday |
1939 | Hollywood film Gone with the Wind was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
1916 | New Zealand-born British physicist Maurice Wilkins was born. | Birthday |
1913 | Japanese politician Masayoshi Ito was born. | Birthday |
1907 | Soviet engineer Nikolai Nikitin was born. | Birthday |
1889 | Supercentenarian from Spain, Joan Riudavets Moll was born. He died at the age of 114 years, 81 days. | Birthday |
1861 | Finnish politician Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was born. | Birthday |
1860 | Faroese physician Niels Ryberg Finsen was born. | Birthday |
1859 | Polish ophthalmologist Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof was born. | Birthday |
1857 | English engineer and inventor George Cayley died. | Death day |
1852 | French physicist Henri Becquerel was born. | Birthday |
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