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| x Apollo 11 |
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The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo Program was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin...
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| x Surveyor 5 |
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Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon.
Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis. A total of 19,049 images were transmitted to Earth.
The mission experienced a helium leak that could...
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| x 2008 Ijegun pipeline explosion |
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On May 16, 2008 a pipeline explosion occurred in the community of Ijegun, a suburb north of Lagos, Nigeria. The explosion took place after a bulldozer struck an oil pipeline. The Lagos police have stated that the explosion appears to be an accident,...
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| x Trafalgar 200 |
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Trafalgar 200 was a series of events in 2005 held mostly in the United Kingdom to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, where a British fleet led by Admiral Nelson (who died in the battle) defeated a joint Franco-Spanish fleet...
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| x Pacers-Pistons brawl |
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Wikinews |
The Pacers–Pistons brawl (colloquially known as The Malice at the Palace or The Basketbrawl) was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004, at The...
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| x 2006 Toronto International Film Festival |
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Wikinews |
The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7 to September 16, 2006. Opening the festival was Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, a film that "explores the history of the Inuit people through the...
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| x Ghotki rail crash | Wikinews |
The Ghotki rail crash occurred on July 13, 2005, at around 3:40am local time (2240 July 12 UTC) in Ghotki, Pakistan. A train stopping at the Sarhad (a town near Ghotki) rail station was hit from behind by a train that missed a signal. The collision...
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| x Mehrabpur train derailment | Wikinews |
The Mehrabpur train derailment was a fatal railway accident that occurred shortly after 02:00 local time on 19 December 2007 near the town of Mehrabpur in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
The train, "Karachi Express", was an express service from...
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| x 2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster | Wikinews |
The Sunjiawan mine disaster (孙家湾矿难) was a mine disaster that occurred on February 14, 2005 in Fuxin city, Liaoning province, in the northeastern part of the People's Republic of China. Initial reports indicated that at least 214 coal miners were...
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| x Pasta de Conchos mine disaster | Wikinews |
The Pasta de Conchos mine disaster occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. CST on February 19, 2006, after a methane explosion within a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, San Juan de Sabinas municipality, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The mines were run...
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| x Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005 |
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Wikinews |
A national day of protest was held in Australia on 15 November 2005, to protest against the industrial relations legislation being introduced by the government of Prime Minister John Howard. The day was organised by the Australian Council of Trade...
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| x Delaware State University shooting | Wikinews |
The Delaware State University shooting occurred on September 21, 2007 when 18-year-old student Loyer D. Braden shot two 17-year-old Delaware State University students from the Washington, D.C. area.
Shalita Middleton, a victim of the shooting, died...
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| x Red Lake High School massacre |
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Wikinews |
The Red Lake massacre was an incident of spree killing that occurred in two places on the Red Lake reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. The first murders began on the morning of March 21, 2005, when 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his...
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| x Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster |
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Wikinews |
The Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on April 18, 2007, in Tieling, Liaoning Province, China. Thirty-two people were killed and six were injured when a ladle used to transport molten steel separated...
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| x Shelly | Wikinews |
The M/V Shelly was an Israeli cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea on 30 August 2007 after a collision with the passenger vessel Salamis Glory. Two crew members were killed in the accident.
Although the Shelly was an Israeli-owned vessel,...
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| x 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak |
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Wikinews |
The 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak began in the spring of 2008 when hundreds of people throughout the United States fell ill after consuming contaminated food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently believes that the contaminated...
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| x 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs | Wikinews |
In the United Kingdom, a series of seven letter bombs were sent during January and February 2007 to various companies and agencies, all related in some way to DNA testing and road transport. Police said that some of the letters were hand written and...
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| x Sober | Wikinews |
The Sober worm is a family of computer worms that was discovered on October 24, 2003. Like many worms, Sober sends itself as an e-mail attachment.
The Sober worms must be unpacked and run by the user. Upon execution, Sober copies itself to one of...
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| x 2005 Malawi food crisis |
The Malawi food crisis is an ongoing severe food security crisis affecting more than five million people in Malawi, especially in the south, caused by the failure to harvest sufficient staple maize due to a drought. Malawi produced just 1.25 million...
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| x West Cork oil spill |
The West Cork oil spill is an ongoing oil spill off the southern coast of Ireland. The spill was first identified by the European Maritime Safety Agency's CleanSeaNet satellite monitoring system on 14 February 2009. An Irish Air Corps marine patrol...
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| x 2009 Daytona 500 |
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The 2009 Daytona 500, the fifty-first running of Daytona 500, was the first points-paying race to open the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. The race was won by Matt Kenseth making a car numbered 17 winning the Daytona 500 for the first time in 20...
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| x Battle of South Mogadishu |
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The Battle of South Mogadishu occurred in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on February 24, 2009. A campaign fought as part of the War in Somalia (2009–), it left at least 87 people dead and 90 more injured during what the BBC described as "the...
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| x 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt |
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The Daily Star |
The 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt was a mutiny staged on 25 and 26 February 2009 in Dhaka by a section of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a Bangladeshi paramilitary force mainly associated with guarding the borders of the country. The headquarters of...
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| x Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 was a passenger flight which crashed near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, on 25 February 2009, killing nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
The aircraft, a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800,...
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| x The Circus: Starring Britney Spears |
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The Circus Tour was a 2009 concert tour by Britney Spears in the US and UK.
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| x Winnenden school massacre |
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The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at a secondary school in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16...
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| x The Fame Ball Tour |
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Tribune Company |
The Fame Ball Tour is a 2009 worldwide concert tour by American recording artist Lady Gaga. Her first concert tour, it promoted her debut studio album The Fame. North American shows began in March, followed by dates in Oceania and a solo trek...
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| x STS-119 |
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NASA |
STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6), and...
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| x 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament |
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ESPN |
The 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was a tournament involving 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008–09...
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| x 2009 Oakland police shootings | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
The 2009 shooting of Oakland, California police officers took place on Saturday, March 21, 2009, when four Oakland police officers were killed by a convicted felon wanted on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation. The convicted felon, Lovelle...
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| x 2009 Australian Grand Prix |
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BBC |
The 2009 Australian Grand Prix (formally the LXXIV ING Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on March 29, 2009 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia. It was the first race of the 2009 Formula One season. The...
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| x 7 July 2005 London bombings |
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BBC |
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also known as 7/7, were a series of coordinated suicide attacks on London's public transport system during the morning rush hour. The bombings were carried out by four British Muslim men, three of Pakistani descent...
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| x 11 December 2007 Algiers bombings | CNN |
There were two near simultaneous bombings in Algiers which occurred on 11 December 2007 when two car bombs exploded 10 minutes apart starting at around 9:30 a.m. local time, in the Algerian capital Algiers. The al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic...
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| x 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings |
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CTV television network |
The 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts that took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial...
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| x 12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings | BBC News |
Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad, Iraq at 12:20 on 12 February 2007 in the Shorja market district, killing 76 people, and injuring 155-180.
The explosions set market stalls, shops, and an adjoining 7-storey building on fire, causing further...
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| x 22 May 2008 Exeter bombing |
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BBC News |
The Exeter bombing was a failed attack which happened on 22 May 2008, at the Giraffe cafe and restaurant in Princesshay, Exeter, United Kingdom. Nicky Reilly, 22, a Muslim convert from Plymouth, pleaded guilty to launching a failed suicide attack on...
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| x 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado |
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
The 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado was a powerful tornado that struck the town of Snyder, Oklahoma in Kiowa County on May 10, 1905. The event was one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the state of Oklahoma. The cyclone killed, according to...
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| x 1915 World Series |
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The New York Times |
In the 1915 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to one.
In their only World Series before 1950, the Phillies won Game 1 before being swept the rest of the way. It was 65 years before the Phillies won their next...
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| x 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash |
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The New York Times |
The 1957 crash of a Douglas C-47 plane named "Mt. Pinatubo" on the slopes of Mount Manunggal, Cebu, Philippines, killed the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay, and 24 other passengers. The crash is estimated to have occurred at 1:40...
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| x 1971 May Day Protests | Time |
On Monday, May 3rd, 1971 one of the most disruptive actions of the Vietnam War era occurred in Washington, DC, when thousands of anti-war activists tried to shut down the Federal government in protest of the Vietnam War. The threat caused by the May...
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| x 1981 Bangalore circus fire | The New York Times |
The 1981 Bangalore circus fire is the fire that occurred on 8 February 1981 in a circus in Bangalore, India. 66 persons, mostly children, died and many were injured in the fire.
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| x 1990 Luzon earthquake |
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The New York Times |
The 1990 Luzon earthquake occurred on Monday, July 16, 1990, at 4:26 PM local time in the Philippines. The densely populated island of Luzon was struck by an earthquake with a 7.8 Ms (surface-wave magnitude). The earthquake produced a 125 km-long...
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| x 1992 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament |
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Long Beach Press-Telegram |
The 1992 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began with 32 teams and ended on December 19, 1992 when Stanford defeated UCLA 3 games to 1 in the NCAA championship match.
Stanford won the program's first NCAA title after three previous...
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| x 1993 Bishopsgate bombing |
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The New York Times |
The Bishopsgate bombing occurred on 24 April 1993, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, City of London, England. One person was killed in the explosion and 44 injured,...
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| x 1994 Winter Olympics | The New York Times |
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. In 1986, the IOC voted to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in...
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| x 1994 stanley cup riot | The New York Times |
The 1994 Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of June 14, 1994 and continued into the following morning. The riot arose after Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Vancouver Canucks...
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| x 1995 Rijeka bombing | The New York Times |
The 1995 Rijeka bombing occurred on October 20, 1995 in Rijeka, Croatia, when an Islamic terrorist organization attempted to destroy a police station by driving a car with a bomb into the wall of the building. Twenty-seven employees in the police...
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| x 1997 Ardabil earthquake |
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CNN |
The 1997 Ardabil earthquake was a destructive earthquake that occurred on 28 February 1997. The epicenter was located near the city of Ardabil in northern Iran.
Ardabil and the surrounding province which bears its name are agricultural lands,...
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| x 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake |
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BBC News |
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that took place in the early evening of Friday, 17 July 1998. The earthquake struck the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 25 km (16 mi) from the coast near Aitape, and caused...
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| x 1999 T. F. Green Airport Runway Incursion | ABC News |
The 1999 T. F. Green Airport runway incursion occurred on December 6, 1999 at approximately 20:35 Eastern Daylight Time. The runway incursion involved two flights, a United Airlines flight 1448 (a Boeing 757) and FedEx flight 1662 (a Boeing 727) on...
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| x 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake |
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Associated Press |
The 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake (also known as the 2002 Avaj earthquake or the 2002 Changureh earthquake) occurred on June 22, 2002 in a region of northwestern Iran which is crossed by several major fault lines. The earthquake's epicenter was near...
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| x 2002 Gujarat violence/2006 revision |
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BBC News Online |
The 2002 Gujarat violence describes the Godhra train burning and resulting communal riots between Hindus and Muslims. On 27 February 2002 at Godhra City in the state of Gujarat, the Sabarmati Express train was forcibly stopped and attacked by about...
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| x 2004 Iraq KBR convoy ambush | CNN |
The 2004 Iraq KBR convoy ambush was an attack by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004 during the Iraq War on a convoy of United States (US) supply trucks near the Baghdad International Airport. It happened in the midst of the Iraq spring fighting of...
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| x 2004 World Series |
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MLB.com |
The 2004 World Series was the Major League Baseball (MLB) championship series for the 2004 season. It was the 100th World Series and featured the American League (AL) champions, the Boston Red Sox, against the National League (NL) champions, the St....
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| x 2005 civil unrest in France |
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L'Humanité |
The 2005 civil unrest in France of October and November (in French Les émeutes de banlieues de 2005) was a series of riots involving mainly the burning of cars and public buildings at night starting on 27 October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois. Events...
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| x 2005 BCS National Championship Game |
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The Boston Globe |
The 2005 Orange Bowl represented the BCS National Championship Game of the 2004 season and was played on January 4, 2005 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
The teams were Southern California Trojans and Oklahoma Sooners. Both programs...
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| x 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions |
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BBC News |
The Jilin chemical plant explosions were a series of explosions which occurred on November 13, 2005, in the No.101 Petrochemical Plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China, over the period of an hour. The explosions killed six, injured dozens, and...
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| x 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake |
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MSNBC |
The 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake occurred along the East African Great Rift Valley, and struck at 12:19:55 (UTC) (14:19:55 local time at the epicentre) on 5 December 2005 with its focus approximately 10 km (6 miles) below the surface of Lake...
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| x 2005 Qeshm earthquake |
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CBS |
The 2005 Qeshm earthquake was a powerful earthquake that occurred on November 27, 2005, at 13:53 local time (10:23 UTC). Centered just west of a sparsely populated area of Qeshm Island, the rupture killed thirteen and devastated four villages. It...
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| x 2005 Songkhla bombings | China Daily |
The 2005 Songkhla bombings were a series of three bombings that took place on April 3, 2005 in the cities of Hat Yai and Songkhla of Thailand's Songkhla Province, and are believed to be part of the on-going South Thailand insurgency. At least two...
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