Jabril Faraj
Recent Event Contributions
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York released
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone, and the second film in the Home Alone series. Home Alone 2 was... Read more
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Avivim school bus massacre
The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 22, 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed, nine of... Read more
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"Mein Kampf" published
Although it is thought of as having been 'written' by Hitler, Mein Kampf is not a book in the usual sense. Hitler never actually sat down and... Read more
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Mohammad Mosaddeq is born
Mohammad Mosaddeq (Persian: محمد مصدق, pronounced [mohæmmæde mosæddeq] ( listen),[add stress] also Mosaddegh, Mossadegh, or Musaddiq) (19 May 1882... Read more
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Michael Jordan Beats the Buzzer to Defeat Utah in Game 6 of the NBA Finals
The Bulls returned to Utah for Game 6 on June 14, 1998 leading the series 3–2. Jordan executed a series of plays, considered to be one of the... Read more
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Michael Jordan's Shot Beats Cleveland to Win the Best-of-Five Series 3-2
The Shot is the name given to a game-winning basket made by Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls in the fifth and final game of the first round of... Read more
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to... Read more
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Good Morning, Vietnam released
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 comedy-drama film set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, based on the career of Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), a... Read more
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, (though some say it was a series of naval military... Read more
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John Dillinger Convicted, Sentenced to 10-20 Years in Prison
Edgar Singleton told Dillinger of a local grocer who would be carrying his daily receipts on his way from work to the barbershop. Singleton... Read more
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Little Bohemia Lodge shootout
In April, the gang settled at a lodge hideout called Little Bohemia Lodge, owned by Emil Wanatka, in the northern Wisconsin town of Manitowish... Read more
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John Dillinger Born
John Herbert Dillinger was born June 22, 1903 in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson... Read more
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John Dillinger, gang arrested in Tucson, Arizona
A fire broke out at Hotel Congress in Tucson where the men were staying. Forced to leave their luggage behind, they were rescued through a window... Read more
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John Dillinger paroled after eight and a half years
Dillinger embraced the criminal lifestyle behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He became embittered against society because of... Read more
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John Dillinger Marries Beryl Ethel Hovious
Dillinger returned to Mooresville where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious (born August 6, 1906), the daughter of Stephen Hovious and Cara Vandeventer. The... Read more
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John Dillinger Crime Spree
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was brought into the investigation to help identify the criminals, although the men had not violated any... Read more
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John Dillinger Gunned Down at Biograph Theater
Dillinger attended the film Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Dillinger was with his... Read more
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John Dillinger Arrested, Held in Allen County Jail
After robbing a bank in Bluffton, Ohio, Dillinger was tracked by police from Dayton. He was captured and jailed in Lima. After searching him before... Read more
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Batman: The Movie released
Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) was the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character. The 20th Century Fox release... Read more
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Batman Returns released
Batman Returns is a 1992 superhero film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to 1989's Batman,... Read more
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Buluggin ibn Ziri founds the rule of the Zirids Algeria
When the Fatimids moved their base to Egypt in 972, Ziri's son Buluggin ibn Ziri (971-984) was appointed viceroy of Ifriqiya. The removal of the... Read more
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The Fatimids conquer Egypt
In 969 the Fatimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli was placed at the head of an army said to number 100,000 men and attempted to seize Egypt. He had... Read more
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Quarmatians sack Mecca, carry the Black Stone away from the Ka'aba
Sources, including the 2007 Britannica, state that the damage to the Black Stone occurred as the result of a theft in 930 CE, when Qarmatian... Read more
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Mansur al-Hallaj is born
Mansur al-Hallaj (Persian: منصور حلاج - Mansūr-e Hallāj; Arabic: منصور الحلاج - Mansūr al-Hallāj; full name Abū al-Mughīth Husayn Mansūr... Read more
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Muslims capture the city of Messina
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the city was successively conquered by the Goths, then by the Byzantine Empire in 535, by the Arabs in 842, and... Read more