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1128 or 747 or −25. 1001 (MI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1001st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1st year of the 2nd millennium and the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1001, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian ...
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Earth formed in this manner about 4.54 billion years ago (with an uncertainty of 1%) [25] [26] [4] and was largely completed within 10–20 million years. [27] In June 2023, scientists reported evidence that the planet Earth may have formed in just three million years, much faster than the 10−100 million years thought earlier.
Hauselman returned to the race in 1925 and went back every year until World War II stopped the race. He resumed going in 1950 and went to his last race in 1970, doling out his tickets in Turn 1 to ...
Chloe Shrager. August 30, 2024 at 12:48 PM. A notoriously deadly Highway 101 crossing in northern San Luis Obispo County claimed another life this week as plans to fix the intersection are years ...
Josef Schütz (16 November 1920 – 13 April 2023), known in the German press as Josef S., [1] was a Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard who was stationed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In June 2022, at the age of 101, Schütz was handed a five-year sentence after a criminal trial for complicity in war crimes during ...
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1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71. 1970 – Black September: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked ...