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🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2016 — The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. 19 people are killed.
  • 2016 — Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic...
  • 2009 — The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and...
  • 2008 — Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
  • 2005 — Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1996 — Olivia Breen, British sprinter
  • 1994 — Ella Leivo, Finnish tennis player
  • 1993 — Raymond Faitala-Mariner, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1992 — Marika Koroibete, Fijian rugby player
  • 1991 — Tyson Barrie, Canadian ice hockey player

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