Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of a young ninja, Naruto Uzumaki, who seeks to gain recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the leader of his village. The series is based on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto: Karakuri (1995) and Naruto (1997). It was serialized in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1999 to 2014, and released in book form in 72 volumes. An anime television series of 220 episodes was produced by Pierrot and Aniplex; it ran in Japan from 2002 to 2007, and its English adaptation aired on Cartoon Network from 2005 to 2009. Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series, premiered in Japan in 2007 and ended in 2017 after 500 episodes. The English adaptation was broadcast on Disney XD from 2009 to 2011, and on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning in 2014. Pierrot has also developed eleven movies and eleven original video animations. Naruto is the fourth best- selling manga series ever.
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1889:
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya
1905:
About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriso_revolt
1977:
British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_interviews
1991:
The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Civil_War
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bulldog clip: 1. A binder clip with rigid handles. 2. (surgery) A surgical instrument with serrated jaws and a spring- loaded handle used to grip blood vessels or similar organs. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bulldog_clip
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