🕰️ On This Day in History
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2013 — A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
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2013 — Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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2005 — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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2004 — The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons...
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1996 — In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
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