David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
American baseball player Albert Belle showed off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
The legends of Albert Belle are vast and unbecoming. There was the time he threatened to kill trick-or-treaters as he ran them off his lawn in a car.
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Brando Makes Anti-Semitic Remarks and then offered to "make a public statement regarding this matter"
Actor Marlon Brando made anti-Semitic remarks about Hollywood on 'Larry King Live Live', stating that the "Jews control Hollywood." He later apologized and made a public statement at the Museum of Tolerance.
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Two celestial events dominated today; a total eclipse of the moon and the (NEAR) spacecraft successfully capturing images of Comet Hyakutake
A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit with an umbral magnitude of 1.3795. It was a central lunar eclipse, in which part of the Moon passed through the centre of the Earth's shadow.
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Rahul Dravid was probably one of the last classical Test match batters, and one of the greatest. after he made his debut in a One Day International o this day against Sri Lanka
His progress into the India side may have been steady and methodical rather than meteoric, but once there, he established himself at the vanguard of a new, defiant Indian side who were no longer easy-beats away from home.
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Federal agents successfully apprehended Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski in Montana, ending a nearly two-decade long domestic terrorism campaign.
Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber', was responsible for a series of mail bombings that killed 3 people and injured 23 others.
The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came toattention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university.
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The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. The 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship saw the Kentucky Wildcats defeat Syracuse with a score of 76-67
In 1996 the provincial government amalgamated all municipal governments within Halifax County to create HRM, a regional municipality comprising approximately 200 individual communities or place names for civic addressing grouped into eighteen planning areas for zoning purposes.
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