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Two celestial events dominated today; a total eclipse of the moon and the (NEAR) spacecraft successfully capturing images of Comet Hyakutake
A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit with an umbral magnitude of 1.3795. It was a central lunar eclipse, in which part of the Moon passed through the centre of the Earth's shadow.
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Rahul Dravid was probably one of the last classical Test match batters, and one of the greatest. after he made his debut in a One Day International o this day against Sri Lanka
His progress into the India side may have been steady and methodical rather than meteoric, but once there, he established himself at the vanguard of a new, defiant Indian side who were no longer easy-beats away from home.
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Federal agents successfully apprehended Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski in Montana, ending a nearly two-decade long domestic terrorism campaign.
Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber', was responsible for a series of mail bombings that killed 3 people and injured 23 others.
The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came toattention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university.
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The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. The 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship saw the Kentucky Wildcats defeat Syracuse with a score of 76-67
In 1996 the provincial government amalgamated all municipal governments within Halifax County to create HRM, a regional municipality comprising approximately 200 individual communities or place names for civic addressing grouped into eighteen planning areas for zoning purposes.
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