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🏛️ Public Holidays

Also observed in: Waitangi Day (NZ)

🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2003 — Father Mustaski is made a bishop.[1]
  • 2000 — Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • 1998 — Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
  • 1996 — Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage...
  • 1996 — Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the...

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1996 — Justina Mikulskytė, Lithuanian tennis player
  • 1995 — Sam McQueen, English footballer
  • 1993 — Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
  • 1992 — Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
  • 1991 — Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer

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