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17 Aug 1958

todayAugust 17, 2022

Background

Belinda Carlisle, singer, from all-female American rock band The Go-Go’s, who had the 1982 US No.2 single, ‘We Got The Beat’, and the 1982 UK hit single ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’. Their 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, is considered one of the “cornerstone albums of US new wave music”. Carlisle had the 1987 solo, US & UK No.1 single ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’.

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16 Aug 2009

Usain Bolt sets 100-meter dash world record On August 16, 2009, under the lights of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium at the World Championships, 22-year-old Usain Bolt strikes a lightning-bolt pose and grins before taking his mark. Then the Jamaican, already the fastest man in the world, shatters his own world record in the 100-meter dash, winning the event in 9.58 seconds. He becomes the first to run the event in less […]

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