Colin Harris
Recent Event Contributions
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Ernest Hemingway Is Born
Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After... Read more
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First All-American Soap Box Derby is Held
In the wake of the first car races, local kid auto races took place in the US at a very early stage. In 1914 the motion picture Kid Auto Races at... Read more
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Edward R. Murrow and Paul White Create 'London After Dark'
The show began on August 24, 1940 when CBS News Chief Paul White and CBS European Events Director Edward R. Murrow began to arrange the show by... Read more
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Richard Nixon Delivers his 'Checkers' Speech
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard... Read more
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President Chester A. Arthur Takes Oath of Office After the Assassination of James Garfield
On this day in 1881, Chester Arthur is inaugurated, becoming the third person to serve as president in that year. The year 1881 began with... Read more
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Edward R. Murrow Reports From the Liberation of Buchenwald
I asked to see one of the barracks. It happened to be occupied by Czechoslovaks. When I entered, men crowded around, tried to lift me to their... Read more
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Red River Delta Flood of 1971
A severe flood of the Red River in North Vietnam kills an estimated 100,000 people on this day in 1971. This remarkable flood was one of the... Read more
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Parliament of Canada Declares War on Nazi Germany
September 10, 1939 the Parliament of Canada declared war against the German Reich, marking the beginning of Canada's participation in the Second... Read more
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Hitler Announces Nuremberg Laws
The following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. Both measures were... Read more
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Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh is Fatally Stabbed While Shopping
A Serbian man has confessed to the killing of Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister who died after being stabbed in a Stockholm department store... Read more
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Google Reveals That It Has Been The Victim Of A Cyber-Attack Originating In China
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly... Read more
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Chinese School Attacks
For the past two months, Chinese authorities have been trying to deal with a string of vicious attacks on young children in rural elementary... Read more
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Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka 'La Barbie', Is Arrested Near Mexico City
Federal authorities have charged alleged drug cartel leader Edgar Valdez-Villarreal -- known as "La Barbie" -- and five other defendants with... Read more
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The Career Girls Murders
The Career Girls Murders was the name given by the media to the killings of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie in their apartment on the Upper East... Read more
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Julian Assange Is Arrested By London Metropolitan Police
The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been refused bail by a court in London but vowed to fight extradition to... Read more
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Henry McCarty, aka 'Billy the Kid' is Born
The infamous Western outlaw known as "Billy the Kid" is born in a poor Irish neighborhood on New York City's East Side. Before he was shot dead at... Read more
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Maguindanao Massacre
The massacre of journalists in Maguindanao Monday is the worst death toll for the press in recent history, an international media watchdog said... Read more
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Harvey's Resort Hotel Bombing
Do not move or tilt this bomb, because the mechanism controlling the detonators in it will set it off at a movement of less than .01 of the open... Read more
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Hungerford Massacre
The killing of 16 people by Michael Ryan at Hungerford was the first massacre by a lone gunman in this country; the terrible events of Dunblane... Read more
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United States Postal Worker Patrick Henry Sherrill Kills 14 Coworkers in Edmond, Oklahoma
From the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, there was a rash of workplace homicides at various U.S. Post Offices, which resulted in coining the term going... Read more
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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. They were never... Read more
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Confucius is Born
Kong Qiu, as Confucius is commonly known, is a combination of his surname and his given name, and he was also known as Zhong Ni, which is his... Read more
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Confucius Dies
Confucius was warmly received in Lu, but there is no indication that he was given a responsible position. Little is known about his last years,... Read more
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San Bruno Pipeline Explosion
A San Bruno man who suffered serious injuries when a gas line exploded and spread flames through the Crestmoor neighborhood died Monday, making him... Read more
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Fourmile Canyon Fire
The Fourmile Canyon fire west of Boulder so far has resulted in $217 million in insurance claims, making it the costliest wildfire in Colorado... Read more