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🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Nationalfeiertag (CH) · Swiss National Day (CH)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2017 — A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people. ↗
- 2008 — The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world. ↗
- 2008 — Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the... ↗
- 2007 — The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour. ↗
- 2004 — A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1996 — Katie Boulter, English tennis player
- 1994 — Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
- 1994 — Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
- 1993 — Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
- 1993 — Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
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