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Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
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On This Day
10 events2022
A mass shooting took place in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving 33 dead and five others injured.
2021
The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.
1993
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
1987
Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
1973
Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.
1963
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
1955
African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
1950
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
1916
A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.
1909
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.