Disaster · August 4, 2020

2020 Beirut explosions

Name: 2020 Beirut explosions
Start: 2020-08-04
Location: Port of Beirut, Lebanon

6 years ago · Port of Beirut, Lebanon

6th anniversary

On 4 August 2020, a major explosion occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, caused by the ignition of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate.

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The 7th anniversary falls on August 4, 2027.

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b. 1961

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office.

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1901–1971

Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre.

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1792–1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.

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LiteratureDied aged 29

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1859–1952

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Growth of the Soil. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.

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LiteratureDied aged 92

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1914

Battle of Liège

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1976

1976 Summer Paralympics

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1995

Operation Storm

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