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From today's featured article  Animation of the Chicxulub impact and subsequent crater formation The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, with its center located offshore, near the town of Chicxulub. The crater is about 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making it one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the asteroid whose impact (animation shown) formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter. Discovered by geophysicists looking for petroleum in the late 1970s, the impact structure was formed around 66 million years ago near the end of the Cretaceous period. It is widely accepted that the devastation and climate disruption from the impact was the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, in which around 75 percent of all plant and animal species on Earth became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs. A 2021 study stated that the impactor likely originated in the outer main part of the asteroid belt. (Full article...)

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Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day October 6: German-American Day in the United States  Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal Wenceslaus III of Bohemia ( b. 1289)Meghnad Saha  ( b. 1893)Hattie Jacques  ( d. 1980)</li></ul> More anniversaries:
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 * Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenyan Amos Kipruto win the London Marathon women's and men's races.
 * In motorsport, Kalle Rovanperä wins the World Rally Championship, becoming its youngest champion at 22 years old.
 * In Malang Regency, Indonesia, at least 131 people are killed in a human crush at an association football match.
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 * 618 – Wang Shichong's army defeated Li Mi's at the Battle of Yanshi, allowing Wang to consolidate his power and soon depose China's Sui dynasty.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains.
 * 1908 – Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged the country's relations with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.
 * 1973 – Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to launch an attack on the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur War.
 * 1989 – About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by ACT UP.
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