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🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2016 — A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are...
  • 2015 — Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
  • 2014 — Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
  • 2009 — The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
  • 2004 — HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1995 — Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer
  • 1992 — Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer
  • 1990 — Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
  • 1990 — Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player
  • 1990 — Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer

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