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Leila Abashidze (; August 1, 1929 – April 8, 2018) was a Georgian actress, director and screenwriter. She was known as Meritorious Artist of Georgia, People's Artist of Georgia. Abashidze was awarded thr Order of the Red Banner of Labour, as well as of awards of European and Asian movie festivals, also has her own honorary star in front of Rustaveli cinema on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia. During her career she was widely considered as "Mary Pickford of USSR". She was one of the most popular Georgian and Soviet actresses. Career. The 1954 movie "Dragonfly" (1954) made her a popular comedic actress. She has had one of her biggest commercial successes with the drama "Meeting Past" (1966), for which, in 1968, she was awarded on Leningrad (now: Saint Petersburg) Film Festival as a Best Actress. She was the writer of "Anticipation" (1970), "Silence of Towers" (1978). She is director, writer and the leading actress of "Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi" (1980). Death. Abashidze died of a stroke in Tbilisi on 8 April 2018 at the age of 88.
Emil Wojtaszek (27 August 1927 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish politician. He served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1976 to 1980. He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was born in Kraków, Poland. Wojtaszek died on 17 June 2017 in Warsaw, aged 89.
Pompeyo Ezequiel Márquez Millán (28 May 1922 – 21 June 2017) was a Venezuelan politician, journalist and former marxist guerrilla member in the 1960s. He was one of the founders of Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and part of the opposition to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.  In the 1980s, he was a member of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE). In 1989, he was appointed by Carlos Andrés Pérez as a member of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF) chaired by Ramón José Velásquez. He was Minister of Borders of the Government of Rafael Caldera. Márquez died on 21 June 2017 in Caracas, at the age of 95.
Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921 – February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and anti-nuclear war activist. He was the original developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.  Career. Lown developed the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation and the cardioverter for correcting rapid disordered heart rhythms, and introduced a new use for the drug lidocaine to control heartbeat disturbances. Throughout his medical career, Lown focused on two major medical challenges: the problem of sudden cardiac death and the role of psychological stress on the cardiovascular system. His investigations led to many medical break-throughs.  His work made possible and safe much of modern cardiac surgery, as well as a host of other innovations. In 1985, Lown accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization he co-founded with Soviet cardiologist Dr. Yevgeny Chazov, who later was Minister Of Health of the USSR. Personal life. Lown was born to a Jewish family in Utena, Lithuania, the grandson of rabbis. He was raised in Lewiston, Maine. Lown studied at the University of Maine and at Johns Hopkins University. He was married to Louise Lown. They had three children. Lown died at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts from pneumonia caused by congestive heart failure on February 16, 2021 at the age of 99.
The Vanne is a river in eastern France that flows through the Aube and Yonne departments, in the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regions. The Vanne is a right tributary of the Yonne river. Geography. The Vanne river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately . Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Pont-sur-Vanne in the Yonne department. Course. The watershed of the Vanne is in the Aube and Yonne departments. It starts, an altitude of , under the church of the "commune" of Fontvannes. a small town that is at about to the west of the city of Troyes, the capital of the Aube department. It then flows to the southwest and gets into the Yonne department. In Sens. the Vanne joins, by its right side, the Yonne river at an altitude of . The Vanne flows through the following "communes": Main tributaries. Most of the tributaries of the Vanne are small streams; the only important tributaries (all of them left tributaries) are:
Money in the Bank (2017) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network livestreaming show. The event was made by WWE and only had wrestlers from "SmackDown". It happened on June 18, 2017 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the eighth Money in the Bank event and the first to feature a Money in the Bank ladder match for women.  Seven matches were performed at Money in the Bank and one of them was on the pre-show. Baron Corbin won the last match which was the men's Money in the Bank ladder match. Also, Jinder Mahal beat Randy Orton to keep the WWE Championship and Carmella cheated to win the first Money in the Bank ladder match for women. The event was also interesting because it was Mike Kanellis' first appearance ever in WWE and Maria Kanellis' first appearance in WWE since 2010. Background. Men's Money in the Bank ladder match. Every Money in the Bank has had a Money in the Bank ladder match which has several wrestlers. The winner is the wrestler that clims a ladder and grabs the briefcase held above the ring. The winner gets a match for a world championship whenever they want for the next 12 months. Since this event only had wrestlers from "SmackDown", the winner would not get a match for "Raw"'s world championship, which at that time was the WWE Universal Championship. Instead, the winner would get a match for SmackDown's then-world championship, the WWE Championship. On the May 23 episode of "SmackDown", Shane McMahon announced who he chose to be in the Money in the Bank ladder match. He chose AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn and Baron Corbin. But Kevin Owens was upset by this because he beat Styles at Backlash. Owens said that he should be in the match, too. Shane then decided to add Kevin to the match. Jinder Mahal vs. Randy Orton. At Backlash, Jinder Mahal beat Randy Orton with help from the Singh Brothers and won his first WWE Championship. On the next episode
Burnet County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 49,130 people lived there. The county seat is Burnet.
Caldwell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 45,883 people lived there. The county seat is Lockhart.
Callahan County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 13,708 people lived there. The county seat is Baird.
Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 28,454 people lived there. The county seat is Linden.
Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 46,571 people lived there. The county seat is Anahuac.
Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 50,412 people lived there. The county seat is Rusk.
Childress County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 6,664 people lived there. The county seat is Childress.
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 10,218 people lived there. The county seat is Henrietta.
Coke County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 3,285 people lived there. The county seat is Robert Lee.
Coleman County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 7,684 people lived there. The county seat is Coleman.
Colorado County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 20,557 people lived there. The county seat is Columbus.
Zoltan Sarosy (August 23, 1906 – June 19, 2017) was a Canadian chess master. He was born in Budapest. He won numerous tournaments in his native country, before immigrating to Toronto in the early 1950s. Sarosy won chess tournaments in several cities in Hungary including Nagykanizsa (1929), Pécs (1932), and Budapest (1934). During World War II he won the Hungarian Master Candidates Tournament at Diosgyor 1943. After the war, following a period in a refugee camp in West Germany, he moved to France in 1948. In 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame. Sarosy died on June 19, 2017 in Toronto at the age of 110.
Steffi Martin (later Steffi Walter, 17 September 1962 – 21 June 2017) was an East German luger. He competed during the 1980s. She won gold medals in the women's singles event, first at Sarajevo in 1984 under her maiden name Martin, then became the first woman to repeat as Olympic champion at Calgary in 1988 under her married name Walter. Martin was born in Schlema, Saxony. She also won two gold medals in the women's singles event at the FIL World Luge Championships (1983, 1985). She also won two silver medals in the women's singles event at the FIL European Luge Championships (1982, 1986). Martin was overall Luge World Cup champion in women's singles in 1983–84 (shared with fellow East German Bettina Schmidt). Martin died on 21 June 2017 in Hamburg, Germany from pancreatic cancer, aged 54.
Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov (, 6 October 1958 – 20 June 2017) was an Russian ice hockey goaltender and coach who competed in the Soviet Hockey League, National Hockey League, and the Swedish Division 2. He was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He mostly played for Traktor Chelyabinsk (1976–80, 1983–89), and also briefly for SKA Leningrad (1980–82), the Quebec Nordiques (1989–90), and Skedvi/Säter IF (1993–95). He was a member of the Soviet national team, winning a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics and at the 1989 and 1990 IIHF World Championships. Mylnikov died in Moscow from heart failure on 20 June 2017 at the age of 58.
Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (11 May 1932 – 19 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer and politician. He was born in Rastan, French Mandate of Syria. He was Syria's Minister of Defense from 1972 to 2004. He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez al-Assad era. He had the rank of colonel general. Tlass died on 19 June 2017 in Paris, France at the age of 85.
Abdul Halim Khaddam ( (; 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020) was a Syrian politician. Khaddam was Vice President of Syria from 1984 to 2005. He was one of the few Sunni Muslims to make it to the top of the Alawite-dominated Syrian leadership. He was long known as a loyalist of Hafez al-Assad, and held a strong position within the Syrian government until he resigned his positions and fled the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar al-Assad. He served as interim President of Syria from 10 June 2000 to 17 July 2000 when Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000. He was later replaced by Bashar al-Assad. Khaddam died on 31 March 2020 in Paris, France of a heart attack, aged 87.
Concetto Antonio "Con" Sciacca (13 June 1947 – 21 June 2017) was an Italian-born Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Australian House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996 and again from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland. He was born in Sicily, Italy. Sciacca died on 21 June 2017 in Brisbane, Australia from liver cancer, aged 70.
Kaiho Tuomas Albin Gerdt (28 May 1922 – 1 November 2020) was a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. Gerdt, serving as a junior runner officer in the infantry regiment 7, was awarded the Mannerheim Cross on 8 September 1942. At that time he held the rank of a Sergeant. After coming home from the war on 13 November 1944, Gerdt worked as a manager in Oy Wilh. Schauman Ab and as an office manager in Oy Kaukas Ab and Kymmene Oy. He was born in Heinävesi, Finland.  Gerdt, serving as the chairman of the Mannerheim Cross Knight Foundation, is the last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. Gerdt died on 1 November 2020 in Helsinki at the age of 98.
Alexis Cabrera (née Kaufman, born August 9, 1991), better known by her ring name Alexa Bliss, is an American professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE.  Cabrera signed a contract with WWE in May 2013. She trained at the WWE Performance Center. She first performed as Alexa Bliss for WWE NXT. In July 2016 Bliss was moved to WWE SmackDown where she won the SmackDown Women's Championship two times, and is the first person to win it twice. She moved to Raw in April 2017. She won the Raw Women's Championship later that month. She would go on to win it three times. Bliss was the first person to win both the SmackDown and Raw Women's championships. Cabrera said that watching Trish Stratus and Rey Mysterio got her into wrestling. She is a big fan of Disney, when she was younger her family went to Walt Disney World each year. She also supports her hometown ice hockey team the Columbus Blue Jackets. Cabrera was engaged to another wrestler Matthew Adams, who is better known by his ring name Buddy Murphy. In 2022 she married singer Ryan Cabrera. On November 27, 2023, they welcomed their daughter, Hendrix Rouge Cabrera.
The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama movie. It was written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It was based on the novel "The Beguiled", written by Thomas P. Cullinan. Plot. The movie is about an injured Union soldier, Cpl. John McBurney. He is a deserter during the American Civil War. He goes to an all-female Southern boarding school. The teachers and students are more than willing to help. Sexual tension leads to dangerous rivalries when the women tend to the soldier's wounded leg and offer him comfort and companionship. Release. "The Beguiled" was first shown on May 24, 2017. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Sofia Coppola won the Best Director award. She was the second woman to wint it. Critical response. Rotten Tomatoes has the movie at 73%, which means good reviews. On Metacritic, the movie has a rating score of 77 out of 100.
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971 in New York City) is an American screenwriter, actress, director and producer. She is the daughter of director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola and documentarian Eleanor Coppola. In 2003, Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2010, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion award. In 2017, Coppola directed "The Beguiled". This movie stars Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Kidman.
Jean-Pierre Kahane (11 December 1926 – 21 June 2017) was a French mathematician. He was born Paris, France. Kahane attended the École normale supérieure and obtained the "agrégation" of mathematics in 1949. He then worked for the CNRS from 1949 to 1954, first as an intern and then as a research assistant. He defended his PhD in 1954; his advisor was Szolem Mandelbrojt. He was assistant professor, then professor of mathematics at University of Montpellier from 1954 to 1961. Since then, he has been professor until his retirement in 1994, then professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay. Kahane died on 21 June 2017 in Paris, aged 90.
Robert Morin Shoemaker (February 18, 1924 – June 21, 2017) was an American military personnel. He was a U.S. Army general and former commander of the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). He was also an inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame. He was born in Almont, Michigan. Shoemaker died on June 21, 2017 at a hospital in Harker Height, Texas at the age of 93.
Gunter Gabriel (born Günter Caspelherr; 11 June 1942 – 22 June 2017) was a German singer, musician and composer. Gabriel became famous in Germany as singer of Schlager songs. He published "Wer einmal tief im Keller saß. Erinnerungen eines Rebellen" with Oliver Flesch in 2009. Gabriel died on 22 June 2017 in Hannover from complications of a fall at the age of 75.
Frank Joseph Kush (January 20, 1929 – June 22, 2017) was an American football player and coach. He was born in Windber, Pennsylvania.  Kush was the head coach at Arizona State University from 1958 to 1979. He was also the head coach of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1981, the National Football League's Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts from 1982 to 1984, and the Arizona Outlaws of the United States Football League in 1985.  Kush was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1995. Kush was of Polish descent and was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Kush on June 22, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona from complications of dementia at the age of 88.
Keith Joseph Loneker (June 21, 1971June 22, 2017) was an American actor and American football player. He was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. For much of his short career, his large football-lineman build garnered him roles largely as thugs or football players. He played for the St. Louis Rams from 1993 through 1995 and later for the Atlanta Falcons in 1996. His first movie was director Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight" (1998) and later the Neil LaBute thriller, "Lakeview Terrace" (2008). Loneker died on June 22, 2017 in Lawrence, Kansas from cancer, aged 46.
Gene Reynolds (April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American actor turned award-winning television writer, director, and producer. He was one of the producers of the popular TV series "M*A*S*H". Reynolds appeared in "In Old Chicago" (1937), "Captains Courageous" (1937), "Love Finds Andy Hardy" (1938), "Boys Town" (1938), [Of Human Hearts] film (1938) by Clarence Brown with Walter Houston and James Stewart]"They Shall Have Music" (1939), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), "Eagle Squadron" (1942) and "The Country Girl" (1954) and on television series like "I Love Lucy", "Armstrong Circle Theatre", "Whirlybirds", and "Hallmark Hall of Fame". Reynolds died of heart failure on February 3, 2020 at a hospital in Burbank, California at the age of 96.
The District of Orbe was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Orbe. As of 2006 it became part of the Jura-Nord vaudois District. It contained the following municipalities:
Uster is a city and capital of the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is the third-largest city in the canton of Zurich. About 35,000 people live there. It is one of the twenty largest cities in Switzerland. It is next to lake Greifensee. The city of Uster received the Wakker Prize in 2001. History. Uster was first mentioned in 775 as "Ustra villa". In 1099, the House of Rapperswil gave the city St. Andreas Church. Villages. Kirchuster, Freudwil, Nänikon, Niederuster, Nossikon, Oberuster, Riedikon, Sulzbach, Wermatswil, Werrikon, Winikon-Gschwader and Uster
A cerebral infarction is an area of necrotic tissue in the brain caused from a blockage or narrowing in the arteries supplying blood and oxygen to the brain.  The lack of oxygen due to the low blood supply causes an ischemic stroke that can result in an infarction if the blood flow is not restored within a relatively short period of time. The blockage can be due to a thrombus, an embolus or an atheromatous stenosis of one or more arteries.  Which arteries are problematic will determine which areas of the brain are affected (infarcted). These varying infarcts will produce different symptoms and outcomes. About one third will prove fatal.
Fredrik Skagen (30 December 1936 – 20 June 2017) was a Norwegian writer. He was born in Trondheim.  Skagen was best known for his crime fiction, but is also the author of some children's books and several radio plays. His first book was published in 1968. His works have been translated into German, Danish, Swedish, Dutch and French. Skagen has received several awards, including the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 1985 and the Glass Key Award in 1996 for best Nordic crime novel.
Michalovce (; , , Romani: "Mihalya", Yiddish: "Mikhaylovets" or "Mykhaylovyts"; ) is a town in eastern Slovakia. Twin towns – Sister cities. Michalovce is twinned with:
was a Japanese professional wrestler best known for his work under the ring name . He helped popularize hardcore wrestling in the 1990s with "death matches" in promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, W*ING and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. He was born in Isesaki, Gunma, Japan. Sekigawa died in a Gunma, Japan hospital on June 23, 2017, at the age of 66, from a cerebral infarction during back surgery.
Gabriel Stanley "Gabe" Pressman (February 14, 1924 – June 23, 2017) was an American journalist. He was a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York City for more than 50 years. He was one of the pioneers of United States television news and has been credited as the first reporter to have left the studio for on-the-scene "street reporting" at major events.  Career. His career spanned more than 60 years, covering events from the sinking of the "Andrea Doria" in 1956, to the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., to the Beatles' first trip to the United States, the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan and to the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.  Dubbed the "Dean of New York Journalism," he won a Peabody Award and 11 Emmys over the course of his career, and was considered a New York icon. Personal life. He was born in The Bronx, New York. Pressman died in his sleep at his home in Manhattan on June 23, 2017. He was 93 years old.
Saman Kelegama (6 April 1959 – 23 June 2017) was a Sri Lankan economist and author. He served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies(Sri Lanka) (IPS) until his death in 2017. He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He also served as the Chairperson of the Evaluation Committee on "Best Corporate Citizen Award" of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 2004 to 2013; and was the head of the panel of judges for the "Exporter of the Year Award" of the National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka from 1998 to 2008. Kelegama died on 23 June 2017 of a heart attack while attending a seminar in Bangkok, Thailand. He was 58 yeas old.
Stefano Rodotà (30 May 1933 – 23 June 2017) was an Italian jurist and politician. He served as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies from 30 April 1992 through 4 June 1992. He was born in Cosenza, Italy. He was a member of the Democratic Party of the Left and later became an Independent. In 2013, Rodotà became a candidate for President of Italy for the Five Stars Movement nomination. Rodotà died in Rome, Italy on 23 June 2017 at the age of 84.
Bitschwiller-lès-Thann is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It lies in the Thur River Valley near the Vosges mountains.
Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. 23,110 people lived there in 2020. A skeleton of a formerly unidentified decedent was discovered in Hudson in 2019.  The city is named after its founder, David Hudson.