Actress Nichelle Nichols was born on December 28, 1932, in Robbins, Illinois as Grace Dell Nichols. She was the third of six children. Her dad, Samuel Earl Nichols, was a factory worker who was elected both town mayor of Robbins in 1929
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On Sunday, protesters gathered outside the office of Malta’s prime minister with a sizable image of an unborn child, urging the government to abandon efforts to change the nation’s stringent anti-abortion laws. The largest demonstration in years drew thousands of participants, including
Authorities claim that new virus varieties are weaker, and China is relaxing some of the strictest anti-virus measures in the world. However, they have not yet indicated when they could abandon the “zero-Covid” plan, which has driven millions of people indoors, sparked
Senior officials have confirmed that Indonesia is set to ratify significant changes to its criminal code on Tuesday. Critics fear that this legal reform could roll back the Southeast Asian country’s hard-won democratic freedoms and police morality. The most contentious changes to
In its largest-ever trial, Belgium will find out on Monday whether 10 men were involved in the 2016 jihadist suicide attacks in Brussels that left 32 people dead and over 300 injured. More than six years after the bombings, presiding judge Laurence
After seeing military exercises taking place across the border in the South, North Korea claimed to have fired more than 130 artillery projectiles into the ocean off its east and west coasts on Monday. Some of the shells fell in a buffer
According to police in Venice, Florida, a plane crash over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico left two individuals dead, including a kid, and one person missing. After receiving a request from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding a Piper Cherokee that
Some ancient Jewish mythology portrays Lilith to be the wife of Adam. Although intellectuals are not definite, in the satirical Alphabet of Sirach  700–1000 AD, Lilith is revealed as Adam’s first wife, she was brought to existence at the same time and
China confirmed two more COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, as several localities move carefully to lift anti-pandemic rules in the face of growing public outrage. According to the National Health Commission, one death has been reported in each of the provinces of Shandong
Iranian officials have been accused of stealing the bodies of protesters from hospitals and morgues. The grieving families of the murdered demonstrators described it as a troubling new kind of intimidation. The United Nations has already issued warnings that Iranian authorities have
After spending six months constructing the Tiangong station, a representation of the nation’s ambitious space program, three Chinese astronauts finally touched down in a northern desert on Sunday, according to official television. At around 8:10 p.m. (1210 GMT), a spacecraft carrying commander
After a video showing Tampa’s police chief flashing her badge from the golf cart’s passenger seat to avoid a traffic citation surfaced, she was placed on leave. Chief Mary O’Connor was placed on administrative leave by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor on Friday
According to authorities, over 1,700 dead seals have been discovered along southern Russia‘s Caspian Sea shore. The cause of the animals’ deaths is still unknown, according to the officials in the Russian province of Dagestan, but they most likely passed away naturally.
The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into a weekend house fire in Atlanta that claimed the lives of two people, the organization said on Sunday. According to a tweet from the NTSB, which looks into pipeline accidents, the fire involved natural
Rescue workers in South Africa said that eight more people are still missing and at least nine people have perished when a flash flood carried away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg. According to officials, the community
After being shot by an 8-year-old family friend inside a Houston home on Sunday, a 5-year-old child is in critical condition, according to authorities. Following the incident on Saturday afternoon in east Houston’s Trinity/Houston Gardens neighbourhood, three people were taken into custody