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History of Amazon. Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in his Bellevue, Washington garage in 1994. Amazon is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", [1] and is one of the world ...
January 28. Portal:Ohio/On this day.../January 28. January 29. (1843) William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, is born in Niles, Ohio. January 30. (1900) John P. Parker, member of the Underground Railroad, died in Ripley. January 31. (1872) Zane Grey is born in Zanesville.
December 18–20, 1957: Highest gust: 53 kn (61 mph; 98 km/h) (estimated) in Hannibal, Missouri, on December 18: Tornadoes confirmed: 37 confirmed: Max. rating 1: F5 tornado: Duration of tornado outbreak 2: 1 day and 14 1 ⁄ 2 hours: Largest hail: 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (3.2 cm) in diameter in Missouri on December 18: Fatalities: 19 fatalities, 291 ...
Disasters The death toll from the Christmas Island wreck rises to 30 with many still missing. (AP via Yahoo! News) Further disruption is caused by blizzards and widespread ice in many parts of the United Kingdom, with more wintry weather forecast for the weekend. (BBC) Cuba is hit by a cold wave, and some locations register 50-year record low temperatures. (Cuban News Agency) [permanent dead ...
Current events/2022 December 18. Nine police officers are killed and two others are injured when a convoy hits a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Al Jazeera) Around 20 Pakistani Taliban members seize control of a counterterrorism centre in Bannu, Pakistan, killing one officer and taking six hostages. The attackers are demanding safe passage to ...
December 1, 1901 (Sunday) French Roman Catholic priest Charles de Foucauld began his North African desert ministry, offering his first mass to French Foreign Legion soldiers at the Algerian oasis of Béni Abbès. At the time, "He was the only priest, and often the only Christian, for 250 miles," and, until his murder in 1916, would minister to ...
December 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 20. All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For December 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 6 .
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later reports the threat has largely passed. (Reuters) (Television New Zealand) 2016–17 North American winter. Two people are killed and at least 15 are hospitalized following a 55-vehicle accident, involving a gas tanker explosion, on Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland, as cold air causes rain and wet ...