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🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2016 — Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
  • 2006 — The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
  • 2001 — Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines;...
  • 1998 — Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the...
  • 1997 — The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1994 — Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
  • 1992 — Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter
  • 1991 — Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer
  • 1991 — Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player
  • 1991 — Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player

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