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🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2016 — Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and... ↗
• 2015 — Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas. ↗
• 2013 — A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. ↗
• 2010 — China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. ↗
• 2009 — A tour helicopter and a private Piper aircraft collide over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S; all... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 2000 — Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
• 1998 — Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1998 — Ronan Parke, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1991 — Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer