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🏛️ Public Holidays

Also observed in: Araw ng Kagitingan (PH) · Day of Valor (PH)

✡️ Religious Observances

🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2017 — Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria take place.
  • 2014 — A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
  • 2013 — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
  • 2013 — At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
  • 2009 — In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 2000 — Jackie Evancho, American singer
  • 1998 — Elle Fanning, American actress
  • 1996 — Jayden Brailey, Australian rugby league player
  • 1996 — Emerson Hyndman, American soccer player
  • 1995 — Domagoj Bošnjak, Croatian basketball player

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