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A historic and deadly winter storm that stretches over 1,500 miles blanketed the southern U.S. on Tuesday with historic snow totals, including the first-ever Blizzard Warning for the Gulf Coast.
1500. Emperor Charles V. January 6 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (d. 1569) [226] January 20 – Jean Quintin, French priest, knight and writer (d. 1561) [227] February 7 – João de Castro, Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India (d. 1548) [228] February 22 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ...
Miles in Transit is a YouTube channel offering comedic coverage of public transit, often featuring obscure, infrequent, or especially underutilized services.
1500–02 – Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real explore and name the coasts of "Terra Verde" (likely Newfoundland) and Labrador. [7] [10] 1500–01 – Diogo Dias reaches Madagascar and reaches the gate of the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. [2] 1500 – Rodrigo de Bastidas explores the Colombian coast from Cabo de la Vela to the Gulf of Urabá. [2]
According to later legendary accounts (folktales collected a century after the fact), Pyanda discovered the Lena. He allegedly explored some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) of its length, reaching as far as central Yakutia. He returned up the Lena until it became too rocky and shallow, and portaged to the Angara River.
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies ...
September 13 falls on Friday this year. Even though you may think Friday the 13th is cursed, some great things have happened on this date.
Ovett arrived at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as favourite to take the 1500 m title, being unbeaten over the 1500 m and the mile for three years. [11] Earlier that month, he had established a new mile world record of 3:48.8 and two weeks later equalled Sebastian Coe's world record of 3:32.1 in the 1500 m. The Moscow Olympics marked only the second ...