Scott McMillin
Recent Event Contributions
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Vladimir Putin Appointed Head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)
In 1998 Boris Yeltsin appointed as director of the FSB Vladimir Putin, a KGB veteran who would later succeed Yeltsin as federal president. Putin... Read more
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Vladimir Putin Joins the KGB
Putin joined the KGB in 1975 upon graduation, and underwent a year's training at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. He then went on to work... Read more
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Vladimir Putin Elected President of Russia
Vladimir Putin was inaugurated president on 7 May 2000. He appointed Minister of Finance Mikhail Kasyanov as his Prime minister. Having announced... Read more
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Vladimir Putin Works in Saint Petersburg City Administration
In May 1990, Putin was appointed Mayor Sobchak's advisor on international affairs. On 28 June 1991, he was appointed head of the Committee for... Read more
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Vladimir Putin is Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department
In 1996, Anatoly Sobchak lost the Saint Petersburg mayoral election to Vladimir Yakovlev. Putin was called to Moscow and in June 1996 became a... Read more
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Inauguration of Donald Trump
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States marked commencement of the four-year term of Donald Trump as President... Read more
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Muhammad Ali Dies
Ali was hospitalized in Scottsdale on June 2, 2016, with a respiratory illness. Though his condition was initially described as "fair", it worsened... Read more
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Donald Trump is Born
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City. He was the fourth of... Read more
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Donald Trump Elected 45th President of the United States
The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump of New York and Governor Mike Pence of Indiana won the 2016 election, defeating the Democratic... Read more
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Earth and Beyond Launches
Earth & Beyond is a science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Westwood Studios and published by... Read more
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London Blitz Begins
The Blitz (from German, "lightning") was the sustained strategic bombing of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (collectively the United Kingdom) by... Read more
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Annie Chapman Murdered in Spitalfields
Annie Chapman's Last Hours Shortly after midnight on the morning of her death, Chapman, like Mary Ann Nichols, found herself without money for... Read more
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Elizabeth Stride Murdered in Whitechapel
Elizabeth Stride was killed on the night of the "Double Event" that saw the murder of Catherine Eddowes less than an hour later. Stride's body was... Read more
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Catherine Eddowes Murdered in the City of London
At 8.30 pm on Saturday the 29 September Eddowes was found lying in the road drunk on Aldgate High Street by PC Louis Robinson and taken into... Read more
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Mary Jane Kelly Murdered in Spitalfields
On the morning of 9 November 1888, the day of the annual Lord Mayor's Day celebrations, Kelly's landlord John McCarthy sent his assistant, Thomas... Read more
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Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols Murdered in Whitechapel
Polly's Last Hours About 11 p.m. 30 August Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was seen walking the Whitechapel Road, at 1.30 a.m. she was seen to leave a... Read more
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'Police Riot' at the Democratic National Convention
August 28, 1968 came to be known as the day a “police riot” took place. The title of “police riot” came out of the Walker Report, which amassed a... Read more
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Luna 2 Becomes First Spacecraft to Reach Moon
After an aborted launch on 9 September, the Ye-1A probe successfully lifted off and reached escape velocity three days later. Officially named the... Read more
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Carl Sagan is Born
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and... Read more
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Prescott's Great Fire
Prescott is home to the historical area known as "Whiskey Row", until 1956 a notorious red-light district. In 1900, a great fire destroyed most of... Read more
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Jesse James is Assassinated by Robert Ford
With his gang nearly annihilated, James trusted only the Ford brothers, Charley and Robert. Although Charley had been out on raids with James, Bob... Read more
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The Battle of Tours (Poitiers)
The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), also called the Battle of Poitiers and in Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء (ma‘arakat Balâṭ ash-Shuhadâ’) Battle... Read more
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Battle of Salamis
Forward, sons of the Greeks, liberate the fatherland, liberate your children, your women, the temples of your ancestral gods, the graves of your... Read more
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl... Read more