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🏛️ Public Holidays

Also observed in: Orangemen's Day (CA)

🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2013 — Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
  • 2012 — The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.
  • 2012 — A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
  • 2007 — U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
  • 2006 — Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1997 — Daniel Lawrence, English cricketer
  • 1997 — Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1996 — Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
  • 1996 — Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
  • 1995 — Luke Shaw, English footballer

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