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... that Elizabeth II (pictured) is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom?
... that former United States senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson discovered the Watergate tapes that led to Richard Nixon's resignation?
... that the word Oxbridge is used to describe the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England?
...that Antonio Vivaldi was known as "The Red Priest" because of the color of his hair?
... that United States senator Rand Paul once talked on the senate floor for twelve hours and fifty-two minutes?

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Joseph Aoun

Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy.
An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths.
A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead.

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