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🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people. ↗
• 2008 — The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world. ↗
• 2008 — Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the... ↗
• 2007 — The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour. ↗
• 2004 — A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 1994 — Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1994 — Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
• 1993 — Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 — Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer