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2008 More than five months after his single-engine airplane went missing in Nevada, American adventurer Steve Fossett was legally declared dead; his body was recovered later in the year. 1989 Under President Mikhail Gorbachev,...

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Shimla, Feb Today Today is Valentine's Day, the feast day of St. Valentine, a priest and physician who was martyred about 270 ce in Rome, and the tradition of exchanging greetings of love...

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Shimla, Feb 2016 American jurist Antonin Scalia—who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming well known for his strong legal conservatism—died in Shafter, Texas. 2008 Australian Prime Minister...

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Shimla, Feb. 10 2014 American actress and diplomat Shirley Temple—who cheered Depression-era moviegoers when she was a dimple-cheeked curly-haired child star and the top Hollywood box-office attraction from 1935 to 1939—died in California. 2005 Arthur...

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Shimla, Feb. 2002 Princess Margaret—who, as King George VI's second daughter and the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, struggled to balance her independent spirit with her duties as a member of Britain's...

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2019 Baseball player and manager Frank Robinson, who was the first Black manager in Major League Baseball, died at age 82. 2015 American collegiate basketball coach Dean Smith—who recorded 879 career victories, making him...

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Shimla, Feb 2018 SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket had its first test flight; on board was a Tesla automobile owned by SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk. 2014 American comedian Jay Leno hosted his last episode of The...

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Shimla, Feb. 2020 After being impeached by the House of Representatives over his actions in the Ukraine scandal, Pres. Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate. 2017 In the first overtime game in Super Bowl...

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Shimla, Feb. 2014 American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who fully inhabited the characters he played and was renowned for his scene-stealing work in supporting roles, died of a heroin overdose in New York...

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Shimla, Jan. 2020 The United Kingdom formally left the European Union, more than three years after the country voted for “Brexit.” 2001 Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am...

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Shimla, Jan   2011 California became the first state to celebrate Fred Korematsu Day, which honoured the Japanese American activist who was convicted in 1942 of violating an exclusion order requiring him to relocate;...

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Shimla, Jan 29 2015 Australian novelist Colleen McCullough, best known for her sweeping romance The Thorn Birds (1977) and for the Masters of Rome series (1990–2007), died at age 77. 2004 Author Janet Frame, who...