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2023

Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. The jury awarded her $5 million in damages for her battery and defamation claims.

2019

Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough.

2001

Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanaian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.

1994

Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.

1980

Slasher horror film “Friday the 13th” is released in cinemas.

1962

The Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone.

1960

US becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill.

1958

Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock has world premiere in San Francisco.

1949

Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco.

1785

Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.

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