2020 Beirut explosion
Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Lil Skies
Lil Skies, American rapper
On August 4, 1987, a record-breaking 700 million people around the world tuned in to watch the final episode of the television series...
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2019 Dayton shooting
Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
2024
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2024
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
