in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Completed in 2000, it has broken and
helped to break ten world records. It was also the first Giga Coaster
(any complete circuit roller coaster that exceeds 300 feet (91 m) in
height) in the world. It was briefly the tallest and fastest complete
circuit roller coaster in the world, before being surpassed by Steel
Dragon 2000 in August 2000. The ride is also the second-longest roller
coaster in North America after The Beast at Kings Island, and was the
first roller coaster to use a cable lift system, rather than a
traditional chain lift. The coaster has a 310 ft (94 m), 45 degree
inclined lift hill with a 300 ft (91 m) drop, and features two
tunnels, three overbanked turns, and four hills. It has a top speed of
about 93 mph (150 km/h). Since 2001, Millennium Force has been voted
the number one steel roller coaster in the world eight times in
Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards, and has never been ranked lower
than number two. Although it is no longer the tallest or fastest roller
coaster at Cedar Point, it is still one of the tallest and fastest in
the world.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Force>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
Construction began in Delhi on the Red Fort (Lahori Gate
pictured), the residence of the Mughal emperors, now an iconic symbol of
India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fort>
1779:
Russian and French mediators negotiated the Treaty of Teschen
to end the War of the Bavarian Succession.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bavarian_Succession>
1913:
Russian American Igor Sikorsky flew the world's first multi-
engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz, which he designed
himself.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky>
1948:
Fifteen Jewish residents of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion were massacred
following their surrender after a two-day battle with the Arab Legion
and Arab settlers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre>
1985:
Eleven members of the American black liberation group MOVE were
killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their
house during a raid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mama bear:
(slang) A woman, especially a mother, who is extremely protective of a
child or children.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mama_bear>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in
Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
--Julian of Norwich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich>
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