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"Déjà Vu" is a song by American singer Beyoncé (pictured) that features vocals by rapper Jay-Z. It was produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and Beyoncé for her second solo album, B'Day (2006). An R&B song, it incorporates elements of 1970s funk and soul music, with bass guitar, hi-hat, and French horns. In the lyrics, a woman is constantly reminded of a past lover. The song was released as the album's lead single to US radio stations in June 2006. It received mixed critical reviews, with favorable comparisons to Tina Turner's vocal performances of the 1980s. "Déjà Vu" was recognized as the Best Song of 2006 at the MOBO Awards, and a club remix by the Freemasons received three nominations for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical at the 2007 Grammy Awards. The song peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and generally within the top 20 in Europe. The accompanying music video was directed by Sophie Muller. (Full article...)

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... that a steel statue (pictured) at the entrance to the University of Surrey's Stag Hill Campus was strength-tested before being placed to ensure it could bear the weight of students attempting to climb it?
... that drag racer Roberta Leighton was the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to race in a Gas class?
... that the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini provided a phonetic theory of voicing around 350 BCE?
... that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University?
... that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin?
... that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson?
... that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent?
... that Indian Medical Service officer Arthur Francis Hamilton was affectionately nicknamed "Alu", the Hindi word for potato?

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Takuya Kai

In a referendum, New Caledonia votes against independence from France.
In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series (MVP Takuya Kai pictured).
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sparking widespread protests by Islamists.
India unveils the Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world at 182 m (597 ft), depicting its first deputy prime minister, Vallabhbhai Patel.
Typhoon Yutu, also known as Typhoon Rosita, makes a second landfall in the Philippines, killing 6 people and leaving at least 23 others missing.

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November 7: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2018)

Hillary Clinton

680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council convened in Constantinople to take a position on the theological positions of monoenergism and monothelitism.
1811 – American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
1949 – Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
1987 – Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
2000 – Hillary Clinton (pictured) was elected as a Senator, becoming the first First Lady to win public office in the United States.

Maldev Rathore (d. 1562) · Lise Meitner (b. 1878) · Eleanor Roosevelt (d. 1962)

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Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon, is a city in Vietnam. With a municipal population of over 8.4 million, and a metropolitan area of around 12 million people, it is the largest city in the country. The earliest settlement in the area was a Funan temple, founded in the 4th century AD. A settlement called Baigaur, part of the Cham Empire, was established on the site in the 11th century and renamed to Prey Nokor when the empire was invaded by the Khmer people. The Khmer king began allowing Vietnamese people to live in the city from 1623, and it became a Vietnamese city under the leadership of Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh in 1698. Initially called Gia Dinh, the Vietnamese city became Saigon in the 18th century. The city was part of the French Empire from 1862 and after World War II became capital of the state of South Vietnam. The city was taken over by North Vietnam in 1975, an event which ended the Vietnam War.

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