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2008Mar, 11

Nils Taube

Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (b. 1928)
Baron Nils Taube (25 July 1928 – 11 March 2008) was Britain's longest serving fund manager. A colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild, he also anticipated the 1987 stockmarket crash, while delivering an annual return of 15 percent for over 35 years while he ran his own fund.

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    Canadian Indian residential school system

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  • 7Aug

    South Ossetia

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  • 29Sep

    Dow Jones Industrial Average

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  • 29Oct

    Northwest Airlines

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  • 10Nov

    Phoenix (spacecraft)

    Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.