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A Six Sides of Steel match

Lockdown (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 13. It was the fourth event in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Eight professional wrestling matches, including two for championships, were featured on the card. Matches took place inside a six-sided steel structure (pictured). The main event was for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between then-champion Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe, won by Joe. Also held on the card was the 2008 Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage and Team Tomko. Christian Cage, Matt Morgan, Kevin Nash, Rhino, and Sting of Team Cage defeated Tomko, A.J. Styles, James Storm, and Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) of Team Tomko in the contest. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported 55,000 purchasers for the event. Chris Sokol of SLAM! Wrestling rated it a 6.5 out of 10. (Full article...)

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Typhoon Jebi

Jair Bolsonaro, a candidate in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, is stabbed during a campaign rally.
The Supreme Court of India strikes down portions of the colonial-era Section 377, making all private consensual sexual acts between adults legal.
An earthquake in the south of Hokkaido, Japan, results in at least seventeen deaths.
Typhoon Jebi (satellite image shown) affects Taiwan and Japan, killing at least seventeen people and causing extensive damage in the Kansai region of Japan.
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September 8: Victory Day in Malta

Severn Bridge

1775 – Priests on Malta rebelled against the Order of Saint John, but their rebellion was suppressed in a few hours.
1860 – The paddle steamer Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
1954 – Eight nations signed an agreement to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a Southeast Asian version of NATO.
1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge (pictured), hailing it as the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
1978 – Iranian Revolution: After the government of the Shah of Iran declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday.

Anne Catherine Emmerich (b. 1774) · Inez Knight Allen (b. 1876) · Derek Taylor (d. 1997)

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The Lucca Madonna is a 1437 oil painting of the Madonna and Child by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck. It shows Mary seated on a wooden throne crowned by a canopy, with four small lion statues made of brass. This is a reference to the throne of Solomon which had twelve lions on the sides and steps. She is breastfeeding the infant Christ. The painting is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

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