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wins the Formula One
World Championship,
while Mercedes win the
constructor's title.
A tornado outbreak
kills at least 76 people
in Kentucky and at least
13 more in neighboring
U.S. states.
Magnus Carlsen defends his World
Chess Championship title, defeating Ian
Nepomniachtchi.
It Takes Two wins game of the year at
The Game Awards.
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December 13:
1643 – First English
Civil War: Roundhead
forces under Sir
William Waller led a
successful surprise
attack on a winter
garrison of Royalist
infantry and cavalry.
1769 – Dartmouth
College, in present-day
Hanover, New
Hampshire, was established by royal
charter, becoming the last university to
be founded in the Thirteen Colonies
before the American Revolution.
1981 – Polish prime minister Wojciech
Jaruzelski (pictured) performed a self-
coup by declaring martial law,
suspending the trade union Solidarity
and imprisoning many of its leaders.
2001 – The Parliament of India was
attacked by five gunmen, who killed
nine people.
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... that the fossil love bug Plecia canadensis
changed genus based on a single vein?
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2011 – After murdering a woman at his
home, a man threw grenades and fired
a rifle at crowds in Liège, Belgium, killing
6 people and injuring 125 others, before
committing suicide.
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The president of the Indian National Congress is the highest command of the Indian
National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Constitutionally, the
president is elected by an electoral college composed of members drawn from the Pradesh
Congress Committees and members of the All India Congress Committee. After the party's
foundation in December 1885, Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee became its first president. From
1885 to 1933, the presidency had a term of one year only. From 1933 onwards, there was no
such fixed term for the president. A total of 61 people have served as the president of the INC
since its formation. Sonia Gandhi (pictured) is the longest-serving president of the party,
having held the office for more than twenty years, from 1998 to 2017 and since 2019.
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Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the
Swedish royal family, located on an island on the outskirts
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