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Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Dutch politician (1948–2002)
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
American inventor (1752–1837)
World War II: German radio broadcasts news of Adolf Hitler’s death
📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY
1939–1945 global conflict
The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 AUSTRALIA
Radio galaxy in the constellation Centaurus
CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
News division of the American television and radio service CBS
The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
📜 CINEMA🌍 GLOBAL
Device used to produce electricity from light
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
American physicist and entrepreneur (1927–1990)
NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
Intergovernmental military alliance
Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Light-conducting fiber
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant
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Arab ethnonational group of the Levant