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ON THIS DAY: Charles Dickens is born (1812)

On 7 February 1812, one of the most celebrated and influential novelists in English literature, Charles Dickens, was born in Portsmouth, England. Known for...

ON THIS DAY: Poet Napoleon Lapathiotis commits suicide (1944)

81 years have passed since the suicide of poet Napoleon Lapathiotis on 7 January 1944, in German-occupied Athens. Α "bohemian" poet, one of the...

ON THIS DAY: Albert Camus dies in a tragic car accident (1960)

On 4 January 1960, Albert Camus, the renowned French author and philosopher, tragically lost his life in a car accident at the age of...

ON THIS DAY: J.R.R. Tolkien is born (1892)

On 3 January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien, was born in Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State, a former...

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ON THIS DAY: Michael Jordan plays final NBA game (2003)

On this day in 2003, Michael Jordan, widely regarded...

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UK Supreme Court rules “woman” means biological sex

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal...
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