🕰️ On This Day in History
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2014 — Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
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2012 — Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
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2007 — Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
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2006 — Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
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1999 — Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen...
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