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🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2015 — The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a a second hostage...
  • 2014 — An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
  • 2011 — Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
  • 2007 — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
  • 2005 — Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president...

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1993 — Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
  • 1993 — Marcus Peters, American Football Player Kansas City Chiefs
  • 1991 — Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
  • 1990 — Justin Blackmon, American football player
  • 1989 — Michael Beasley, American basketball player

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