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Katherine Coleman Johnson, född 26 augusti 1918 i White Sulphur Springs i Greenbrier County i West Virginia, död 24 februari 2020 i Hampton i Virginia, var en banbrytande amerikansk matematiker. Hon var bland annat verksam vid NASA. Hennes beräkningar av omloppsbanor för rymdfarkoster var avgörande för det lyckade geno…

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2016
Jo_Cox
Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
2012
Liu_Yang_(taikonaut)
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
1997
Radiohead
The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom.
1972
David_Bowie
English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
1963
Vostok_6
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
1960
Psycho_(1960_film)
Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
1936
Junkers_Ju_52
A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
1904
James_Joyce
Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
1883
Victoria_Hall_disaster
In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.
1819
1819_Rann_of_Kutch_earthquake
A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').

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