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Brian Wilson

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Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and significant figures in the history of popular music, he was distinguished for his high production values and complex harmonies, orchestrations, and vocal…

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Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the arti…

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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's founding members consiste…

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10 events
2012
2012_Afghanistan_earthquakes
Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
2008
Stephen_Harper
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
2007
2007_Chittagong_mudslides
Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
2001
Timothy_McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
2001
Tesco_bomb_campaign
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
1963
Bhikkhu
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
1963
University_of_Alabama
The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).
1923
Jasper_Abraham_murder_case
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.
1920
1920_Republican_National_Convention
During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
1917
Alexander_of_Greece
Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine I, who had abdicated.

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