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🏛️ Public Holidays

Also observed in: Día de la Independencia (MX) · Hari Malaysia (MY) · Independence Day (MX)

🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2014 — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian-Kurdish forces.
  • 2013 — A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
  • 2007 — One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
  • 2007 — Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad
  • 2005 — The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1994 — Mitchell Moses, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 — Sam Byram, English footballer
  • 1992 — Vytenis Čižauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
  • 1992 — Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1992 — Jake Roche, English singer-songwriter and actor

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