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In the News
- Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
- The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
- Kenyan Ruth Chepng'etich breaks the women's marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo.
Did You Know...
- ... that Catharina Weiss (pictured) used to play for the Rolling Chocolate?
- ... that King Minkhaung I of Ava lamented that King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy had invaded his country without "breaking a sword or a lance"?
- ... that Andreas Vogt yelled "Down with the government! Long live the republic!" at a session of the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1919?
- ... that "Dark Avenger", a song from Manowar's album Battle Hymns, is narrated by actor Orson Welles?
- ... that real paramedics were hired to portray EMTs in Mongrel, and they responded to a medical emergency that occurred in a village where they were filming?
- ... that labor lawyer Dick Moss argued the 1975 case which resulted in the establishment of free agency in Major League Baseball?
- ... that Louis Vuitton helped to develop the visual arts programme for the School of the Arts, Singapore?
- ... that the University of Memphis football team posthumously retired Danton Barto's number following an online petition?
- ... that the 1935 Brussels Party Conference of the Communist Party of Germany took place in the outskirts of Moscow?