A look back at history on this date
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Four members of a Palestinian family are shot dead in Tammun by the Israeli military.
The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.
Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.
Beginning of the Syrian revolution.
Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union.
Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
Rodri Mendoza
Spanish footballer
Born 2005Isaiah Bond
American football player (born 2004)
Born 2004Quinn Ewers
American football player (born 2003)
Born 2003Ellie Leach
English actress (born 2001)
Born 2001Kristian Kostov
Bulgarian-Russian singer (born 2000)
Born 2000Maxwell Jacob Friedman
American professional wrestler (born 1996)
Born 1996Seonaid McIntosh
British sport shooter (born 1996)
Born 1996Jinjin
South Korean rapper (born 1996)
Born 1996Wings Hauser
American actor (1947–2025)
2025Nita Lowey
American politician (1937–2025)
2025Rajnikumar Pandya
Indian Gujarati-language writer
2025Barbara Maier Gustern
American vocal coach (1935–2022)
2022Vittorio Gregotti
Italian architect (1927–2020)
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