🕰️ On This Day in History
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2013 — One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
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2003 — Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
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1998 — Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
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1996 — Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th...
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1994 — The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
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