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🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Maha Shivaratri (IN) · 農曆除夕 (TW)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Buddhist: Nirvana Day major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2013 — A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly... ↗
- 2012 — Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua. ↗
- 2003 — Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people... ↗
- 2001 — The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. ↗
- 1996 — At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1993 — Ravi (rapper), South Korean rapper
- 1992 — Johanna Hyoty, Finnish tennis player
- 1991 — Ángel Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer
- 1990 — Charles Pic, French race car driver
- 1988 — Jarryd Hayne, Australian rugby league player and football player
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