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🕰️ On This Day in History

  • 2015 — Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
  • 2012 — The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
  • 2012 — A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
  • 2009 — The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
  • 2002 — The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.

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🎂 Notable Births

  • 1997 — Billy Bainbridge, Australian rugby league player
  • 1994 — Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 — Cameron Cullen, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 — Crazy Mary Dobson, American wrestler
  • 1993 — Ryōhei Katō, Japanese gymnast

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