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🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2004 — The Crisis in Beslan commences when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia (Russia); by the end... ↗
• 1991 — Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union. ↗
• 1985 — A joint American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. ↗
• 1983 — Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace,... ↗
• 1982 — The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Zendaya Stoermer Coleman, American actress and singer
• 1995 — Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 — Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
• 1994 — Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016
• 1993 — Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer