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🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2008 — The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. ↗
• 1999 — The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. ↗
• 1998 — Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. ↗
• 1990 — First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. ↗
• 1989 — U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1993 — Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 — Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
• 1993 — Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1992 — Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1992 — Adam Yates, English cyclist