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Republic Day is a national holiday in India commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of India, which came into effect on 26 January 1950. The constitution replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India, thus turning the nation from a dominion into a republic post its independence from the British Raj in 1947.
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Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 14, 1943 โ September 3, 2012), known as the Black Widow or Cocaine Godmother, was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, US, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellรญn Cartel.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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Jรผrgen Norbert Klopp (German pronunciation: [หjสสษกnฬฉ หklษp] ; born 16 June 1967) is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. He is widely regarded as one of the best football managers in the world. Klopp spent most of his playing career at Mainz 05. He was initially deployed as a striker, but was later moved to defence.
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The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. The Australian Open starts in the middle of January and continues for two weeks coinciding with the Australia Day holiday.
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Fighter is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures. The film stars Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor, and serves as the first film in a planned aerial action franchise. The film was announced on 10 January 2021. The pre-production was much delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 โ June 18, 2018), known professionally as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. Though a controversial figure due to his widely publicized legal troubles, XXXTentacion gained a cult following among his young fanbase during his short career with his depression- and alienation-themed music.
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Animal is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed and edited by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pranay Reddy Vanga and Saurabh Gupta. The film is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Pranay Reddy Vanga, Krishan Kumar and Murad Khetani under T-Series Films, Bhadrakali Pictures and Cine1 Studios.
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Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (Russian: ะะฐะฝะธะธะป ะกะตัะณะตะตะฒะธั ะะตะดะฒะตะดะตะฒ, IPA: [dษnสฒษชหiษซ sสฒษชrหษกสฒe(j)ษชvสฒษชtษ mสฒษชdหvสฒedสฒษชf]; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and is the current world No.
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Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith
The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 โ January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama.
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Xabier Alonso Olano (Basque: [หสaฮฒi aหlonsฬบo oหlano], Spanish: [หสaฮฒj aหlonso oหlano]; born 25 November 1981) is a Spanish football coach and former professional player who is currently the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. He is regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation. Alonso began his career at Real Sociedad, the main team of his home province Gipuzkoa.
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The 2023 AFC Asian Cup is the ongoing 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It involves 24 national teams after expansion in 2019, with Qatar the defending champions. On 17 October 2022, the AFC announced that the tournament will be held in Qatar, replacing original host China.
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Raheem Morris (born September 3, 1976) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams from 2021 to 2023 and served as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2009 to 2011 and interim head coach of the Falcons in 2020.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinฤ Greek: ฮฮปฮตฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฮฑ ฮฮตฮฌ ฮฆฮนฮปฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฯ lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; 70/69 BC โ 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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Cynthia Ann Howell (July 16, 1980 โ c. January 24, 2024), known professionally as Jesse Jane, was an American pornographic film actress. She entered the industry in the early 2000s and quickly rose to prominence, earning numerous awards and distinctions for her performances, including numerous AVN Awards.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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On January 11, 2024, the Texas National Guard took control over Shelby Park, a 47-acre (19 ha) area of parkland in the town of Eagle Pass, situated along the Rio Grande river that separates the United States from Mexico, after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an emergency declaration to close down the park.
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Palworld is an action-adventure, survival, and monster-taming game hybrid created and published by Japanese developer Pocket Pair. The game is set in an open world populated with animal-like creatures known as "Pals". The players can battle and capture Pals in order to use them for base building, traversal, and combat.
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Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (3 April 1914 โ 27 June 2008), also known as Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
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Sofรญa Margarita Vergara Vergara (Spanish: [soหfi. a ฮฒeษพหษฃaษพa]; born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian and American actress and television personality. She is most known for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009โ2020), for which she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC character Aquaman. Produced by DC Studios, Atomic Monster, the Safran Company, and Domain Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sequel to Aquaman (2018), and the 15th and final film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
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Nimarata Nikki Haley (nรฉe Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Haley is the first Indian American to serve in a presidential cabinet.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.
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The 2024 Australian Open is a Grand Slam level tennis tournament being held at Melbourne Park, from 14โ28 January 2024. It is the 112th edition of the Australian Open, the 56th in the Open Era, and the first major of the year. The tournament consists of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
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Vincent Kennedy McMahon ( mษk-MAN; born August 24, 1945) is an American businessman, media proprietor, sports executive, and professional wrestling promoter. He is a co-founder of the modern WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion, and is the current Executive Chairman of the promotion's parent company TKO Group Holdings.
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Salaar: Part 1 โ Ceasefire (transl. Commander) is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language epic action film written and directed by Prashanth Neel and produced by Vijay Kiragandur. It stars Prabhas and Prithviraj Sukumaran, with a supporting cast that includes Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu, Bobby Simha, Tinnu Anand, Easwari Rao, Sriya Reddy and Ramachandra Raju.
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Hazbin Hotel is an American adult animated musical comedy streaming television series created by Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano. The series revolves around Charlie Morningstar, princess of Hell, on her quest to find a way for demons to be "rehabilitated" and allowed into Heaven. She opens a rehabilitation hotel, called the "Hazbin Hotel", which offers demons a chance at redemption.
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ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. Based on a large language model, it enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and replies, known as prompt engineering, are considered at each conversation stage as a context.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (film)
Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic western crime drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese. Eric Roth and Scorsese based their screenplay on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land.
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International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), also called the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues. It is one of the six organs of the United Nations (UN), and is located in The Hague, Netherlands.
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2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
The 2024 ICC Under-19 Men's Cricket World Cup is an international limited-overs cricket tournament that is currently being held in South Africa from 19 January to 11 February 2024. It is the fifteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. India are the defending champions.
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster (Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes (Milagro de los Andes).
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The Beekeeper is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer. The film stars Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons. The Beekeeper was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios under the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures label on January 12, 2024.
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Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019โpresent) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), which earned her nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Sweeney first gained attention in 2018 for appearing in the television series Everything Sucks!
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True Detective: Night Country is the fourth season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, which premiered on January 14, 2024, on HBO. The season is set in the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, and follows the investigation behind the disappearance of eight men from a research station.
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Inert gas asphyxiation is a form of asphyxiation which results from breathing a physiologically inert gas in the absence of oxygen, or a low amount of oxygen, rather than atmospheric air (which is composed largely of nitrogen and oxygen). Examples of physiologically inert gases, which have caused accidental or deliberate death by this mechanism, are argon, helium, nitrogen and methane.
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Barry Keoghan ( KYOH-gษn; born 17 October 1992) is an Irish actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number 27 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. The third-largest country in the world by land and total area, the U.S. consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands and includes 326 Indian reservations.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and his father named him president of his real estate business in 1971.
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The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871โ72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The FA).
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The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. The document lays down the framework that demarcates fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles, and the duties of citizens, based on the proposal suggested by M. N. Roy. It is the longest written national constitution in the world.
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Road House is a 1989 American action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a cooler at a newly refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. Sam Elliott co-stars as a bouncer, the mentor, friend, and foil of Swayze's character. The cast also includes Kelly Lynch as Swayze's love interest and Ben Gazzara as the main antagonist.
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Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Often referred to as the ''Prince of Pop'', he is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of his generation. Timberlake is known for his diverse artistry in showmanship, vocal performances, songwriting, and musical production.
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Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Projectโthe World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
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The Traitors (American season 2)
The second US season of the television series The Traitors was announced on September 21, 2023. The first three episodes premiered on Peacock on January 12, 2024.
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Ryan Thomas Gosling ( GOSS-ling; born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in both independent film and major studio features of varying genres, his films have accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1. 9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTAs.
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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Her songwriting, artistry, and entrepreneurship have majorly influenced the music industry and popular culture, and her life is a subject of widespread media coverage. Swift began writing songs professionally at age 14 and signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country singer.
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2024 Australian Open โ Men's singles
Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Jannik Sinner. His loss ended a 33-match winning streak at the Australian Open (dating back from the 2019 tournament), marked his first-ever defeat in an Australian Open semifinal and his first defeat in any major semifinal since the 2019 French Open.
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Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as 22nd Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previously held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. He is Bihar's longest serving chief minister. He is the leader of the Janata Dal (United).
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Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
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Julia Sebutinde (born 28 February 1954) is a Ugandan judge serving her second term on the International Court of Justice following her re-election on 12 November 2020. She also is the current chancellor of Muteesa I Royal University, a university owned by Buganda kingdom. She has been a judge on the court since March 2012.
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Monkey Man is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Dev Patel in his feature directorial debut with a screenplay by Patel, Paul Angunawela and John Collee from a story by Patel. The film stars Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, and Makarand Deshpande.
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Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947, the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly, came into effect.
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Droupadi Murmu (nรฉe Puti Biranchi Tudu; born 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician and former teacher who is serving as the 15th and current President of India since 2022. She won the 2022 presidential election as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is the first person belonging to the tribal community and also the second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the office.
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Space Invaders is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and released by Taito in Japan, and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution. Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, Space Invaders was the first fixed shooter and set the template for the genre.
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The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest continental football championship in the world after Copa Amรฉrica.
