Tag: This Day in History
This Day in History
2019
More than 1.5 million students participated in climate change protests around the world as part of Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
2011
Antigovernment protests were held...
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2015
American architect and designer Michael Graves, who was one of the principal figures of the postmodernist movement, died at age 80.
2009
American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff pled guilty to various...
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2010
American director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for The Hurt Locker (2008).
1999
American director and writer Stanley Kubrick—whose iconic films are characterized by...
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American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote—who evoked American life in beautifully observed minimal stories and was perhaps best known for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird—died in Connecticut.
1982
Canadian jurist Bertha...
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2009
President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated by government soldiers, following years of unrest between Vieira and the military.
1999
British singer Dusty Springfield—who made her mark during the 1960s beat boom...
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2015
American actor Leonard Nimoy—who was best known for his portrayal of the stoic, cerebral Mr. Spock in the sci-fi TV and film franchise Star Trek—died at age 83.
2008
American editor and author...
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2012
National debates about racism and racial profiling ensued after Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenager returning from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida, was fatally shot by a neighbourhood-watch volunteer,...
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2001 -- Australian cricketer Don Bradman, one of the greatest run scorers in the history of the game and often judged the greatest player of the 20th century, died at the...
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2020 -- American mathematician Katherine Johnson—whose trailblazing work at NASA became known to a wide audience through the book Hidden Figures and its film adaptation (both 2016)—died at age 101.
2020
American film producer...
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2014
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was impeached following widespread protests after he abandoned an association agreement with the European Union; he fled the country and was later accused of embezzlement.
2011
After enduring more...
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2018
American evangelist Billy Graham—whose large-scale preaching missions, known as crusades, and friendship with numerous U.S. presidents brought him to international prominence—died at age 99.
1995
American businessman and adventurer Steve Fossett became the...
This Day in History
2019
German fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld—the creative power behind the modern revival of Chanel, the legendary French fashion house founded by Coco Chanel in the early 20th century—died in Paris.
2016
American...