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Bee Gees

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The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. They were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies: Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R…

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Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British and American musician. Along with his younger fraternal twin brothers, Robin a…

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Andrew Roy Gibb was an English singer. He rose to international fame in the late 1970s as a teen idol and pop star. The …

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10 events
2014
NASA
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
2013
West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion
An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.
2006
Palestinian_suicide_attacks
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others.
1986
Isles_of_Scilly
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.
1984
Metropolitan_Police
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations.
1975
Khmer_Rouge
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
1973
George_Lucas
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
1969
Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček was deposed.
1969
Sirhan_Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1951
Peak_District
The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.

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