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UN International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition   2000 – The first season of the U.S. version of the reality TV game show Survivorended, […]

UN International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

 

2000 – The first season of the U.S. version of the reality TV game show Survivorended, with Richard Hatch being pronounced the winner; the hugely popular series was credited with launching the reality TV fad of the early 21st century.

Anniversary of:
the Battle of Stalingrad – 40,000 died (1942)
the World Wide Web being opened to the public (1991)
the release of Jeff Buckley’s only studio album Grace (1995)
• Hurricane Katrina forming over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane (2005)
the first use of the hashtag in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina (2007)
the birthdays of actor Gene Kelly (1912), actor River Phoenix (1970), and basketball star Kobe Bryant (1978)

 

William Wallace executed
On this day in London, William Wallace was executed for treason, condemned for leading Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free Scotlandfrom English rule.

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