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  2. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    The term year 2000 problem, [1] or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. Computer systems' inability to distinguish ...

  3. 2020 United States federal government data breach - Wikipedia

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    One security researcher offers the likely operational date, February 27, 2020, with a significant change of aspect on October 30, 2020. [ 112 ] In January 2021, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said SUNBURST resembles the malware Kazuar, which is believed to have been created by Turla , [ 113 ] [ 103 ] [ 114 ] [ 115 ] a group known from 2008 that ...

  4. 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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    On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.

  5. April Fools' Day - Wikipedia

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    Some historians suggest that April Fools' originated because, in the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on 25 March in most European towns, [10] with a holiday that in some areas of France, specifically, ended on 1 April, [11] [12] and those who celebrated New Year's Day on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates by ...

  6. Independence Day (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

  7. Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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    Fred Trump paid his children each about $20,000 a year, equivalent to $265,000 a year in 2024. Trump was a millionaire in inflation-adjusted dollars by age eight. [4] [a] Trump attended the private Kew-Forest School through seventh grade. He was a difficult child and showed an early interest in his father's business.

  8. 1986 - Wikipedia

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    1986 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.

  9. Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia

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    The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, an 1857 portrait by Robert Walter Weir now housed at Brooklyn Museum. The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.