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🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Boxing Day (observed) (GB,NG,NZ) · Boxing Day (NG,NZ) · St. Stephen's Day (AU,GB)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard. ↗
- 2009 — Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. ↗
- 2006 — War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. ↗
- 1989 — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. ↗
- 1973 — The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1994 — Adam Peaty, English swimmer
- 1990 — Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner
- 1990 — Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
- 1990 — David Archuleta, American singer-songwriter
- 1989 — Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer and Eurovision winner
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