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Also observed in: Isra Mikraj Nabi Muhammad (perkiraan) (ID)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Lailat-ul-Miraj major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2016 — 33 out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant. ↗
- 2006 — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. ↗
- 2003 — The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. ↗
- 2002 — The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the... ↗
- 2001 — Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. ↗
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- 1995 — Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
- 1993 — Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
- 1993 — Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- 1991 — Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 — Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
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