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Today's featured article/November 2021. November 1. Charles Green (26 December 1919 – 1 November 1950) was an Australian Militia officer who volunteered for overseas service at the start of World War II. He fought in Greece in 1941 and returned to Australia in 1942.
2024 Chicago White Sox's 121st loss, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records. The 2024 Chicago White Sox earn their 121st loss against the Detroit Tigers, breaking the Major League Baseball record for the most amount of losses in a post-1900 season. (AP) September 26, 2024 (Thursday) edit. history.
August 23. Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made Vainio renowned internationally.
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Today's featured article/January 2021. January 1. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) was a United States military agency responsible for those aspects of nuclear weapons that remained under military control after the Manhattan Project was succeeded by the Atomic Energy Commission on 1 January 1947.
On this day/Today. AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian. 1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.
Groundhog Day (film) (2 February 2021) 138,095. Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who is sent, much to his disgruntlement, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna. 1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn. 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.