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On October 3, 1996, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Wisława Szymborska of Kraków, Poland, praising her poetry's "ironic precision." What...
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On February 22, 1980, twenty American college hockey players faced a Soviet team that had dominated Olympic hockey for nearly two decades, winning four consecutive...
On May 1, 1994, Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy,...
In 1969, as malaria ravaged soldiers across Southeast Asia, Chinese chemist Tu Youyou was tasked with finding a cure. She and her team at the...
On December 5, 1955, over 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city buses. What began as a one-day protest after Rosa...
When the first volume of *The Lord of the Rings* appeared in London bookshops on July 29, 1954, it bore only J.R.R. Tolkien's name on...