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In late April 2004, the U.S. television news-magazine 60 Minutes II, a franchise of CBS, broadcast a story on the abuse. The story included photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners. [74] The news segment was delayed by two weeks at the request of the Department of Defense and Richard Myers , an air force general and Chairman of the Joint ...
February 8: The Algerian Civil War ends. February 27 – March 1: Riots and mass killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave 1,044 dead. March 14: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk. April 11 - 13: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt fails to overthrow president Hugo Chavez. May 20: East Timor gains independence.
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Most Shocking is an American reality television series produced by Nash Entertainment and truTV Original Productions. A spin-off series entitled Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking aired from 2009 to 2012. [1] The program held a TV-14 rating due to extremely violent situations depicted in the videos.
The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program," with others worrying about potential child exploitation. Jersey Shore A string of controversies over the U.S. MTV series documenting members of the Guido subculture made this series one of the most controversial in television history.
18 October 1840. Hippolyte Bayard. Paris, France [6] Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process. [7] [8] [s 1] The Haystack. 1844 [c] William Henry Fox Talbot.
2010 ( MMX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade. The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake ...
The 2010 general election takes place, resulting in a hung parliament. The Conservative Party win 306 of the 649 seats contested, placing them 20 seats short of an overall majority in the House of Commons. The Labour Party win 258 seats, the Liberal Democrats win 57, and other parties win 28.