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✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Lailat-ul-Bara'at major
- Islamic: Urs of Sayyidina Abu Yazid al-Bistami (ق) major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. ↗
- 2007 — A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. ↗
- 1998 — Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a... ↗
- 1995 — Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ↗
- 1989 — After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1997 — Paige Mary Hourigan, New Zealand tennis player
- 1996 — Rhap Salazar, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
- 1995 — Kim Domingo, Filipino actress and model
- 1992 — Luke Keary, Australian rugby league player
- 1991 — Nikola Hofmanova, Austrian tennis player
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