Monday March 18, 2019

Holidays

• Saint Edward (d.978)
• Aruba - Flag Day (1976)
• Ancient Latvia - Bindus Diena
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (d.386)
• Saint Alexander of Jerusalem
• United States - National Biodiesel Day
• Saint Anselm
• Saint Salvator
• Saint Narcissus
• Mexico - Expropiaci=n Petreolera
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Events

• 2019 Utrecht shooting: A man opens fire in a tram in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, killing three people and injuring nine others, before fleeing. Terrorism is suspected by authorities. A 37-year-old Turkish man is arrested. (Fox News)
• A man opens fire in a tram in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, killing three people and injuring nine others, before fleeing. Terrorism is suspected by authorities. A 37-year-old Turkish man is arrested. (Fox News)
• Christchurch mosque shootings, Internet censorship in Australia: Telstra blocks access to several websites in Australia for hosting footage of the recent mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, which were livestreamed on Facebook, including LiveLeak, 4chan, 8chan, Voat and the blog Zero Hedge. Optus and Vodafone took similar actions but did not list which sites had been blocked. (9news)
• Telstra blocks access to several websites in Australia for hosting footage of the recent mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, which were livestreamed on Facebook, including LiveLeak, 4chan, 8chan, Voat and the blog Zero Hedge. Optus and Vodafone took similar actions but did not list which sites had been blocked. (9news)
• Kamchatka superbolide: NASA reports that it has detected a huge meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere on December 18, 2018, above Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The explosion went largely unnoticed due to its location. The explosion, which was ten times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the second largest of its kind in 30 years. (BBC)
• NASA reports that it has detected a huge meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere on December 18, 2018, above Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The explosion went largely unnoticed due to its location. The explosion, which was ten times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the second largest of its kind in 30 years. (BBC)
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News articles

• A Mar-a-Lago Weekend and an Act of God: Trump’s History With Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank’s hunger for profits and risk led it to lend Donald Trump more than $2 billion. Once he was elected president, employees were told not to utter his name. [..]
• Cadbury Proposes a Treasure Hunt. Archaeologists Are Horrified. A marketing push by the British confectioner equating digging into a box of chocolates with digging up artifacts at heritage sites was described as “shocking, ill-advised & irresponsible.” [..]
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