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2026-02-23

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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes
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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes

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Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, commonly referred to by his alias El Mencho, was a Mexican drug lord and top leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), an organized crime group based in Jalisco. He was the most wanted person in Mexico and one of the most wanted in the U.S. The US government and the Mexican g…

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Johnny Gaudreau
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John Michael Gaudreau was an American professional ice hockey player. A winger, he played 11 seasons in the National Hoc…

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Blord
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Linus Williams Ifejirika is a Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and the founder of Blord Group. Blord's companies, in…

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On This Day

10 events
2021
February_2021_Ecuadorian_prison_riots
Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons, caused by gang rivalries, resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.
2017
Syrian_civil_war
Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.
2008
Northrop_B-2_Spirit
A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash in U.S. Air Force history.
1987
SN_1987A
SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1971
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: South Vietnamese General Đỗ Cao Trí was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering Operation Lam Son 719.
1945
World_War_II
Second World War: An Allied bombing run on Pforzheim, Germany, killed approximately 31 percent of its population and destroyed about 83 percent of its buildings.
1945
Joe_Rosenthal
American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima, an image that was later reproduced on the Marine Corps War Memorial.
1944
1940–1944_insurgency_in_Chechnya
In response to an insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet Union began the forced deportation of the native Chechen and Ingush of North Caucasus.
1943
Cavan_Orphanage_fire
35 children and 1 adult employee were killed in a fire at an orphanage in the town of Cavan, Ireland.
1941
Plutonium
Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.

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