A look back at history on this date
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Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.
A bomb attack in the Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, and soldiers die.
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
Maja Chwalińska
Polish tennis player (born 2001)
Born 2001Daniel Maldini
Italian footballer (born 2001)
Born 2001Jacob Preston (rugby league)
Australia international rugby league footballer (born 2001)
Born 2001Chu Ye-jin
South Korean actress (born 2001)
Born 2001Adin Ross
American online streamer (born 2000)
Born 2000Leicester Faingaʻanuku
NZ rugby union player (born 1999)
Born 1999Keldon Johnson
American basketball player (born 1999)
Born 1999Rhea Ripley
Australian professional wrestler (born 1996)
Born 1996Diane Keaton
American actress (1946–2025)
2025Jamaluddin Hossain
Bangladeshi actor (1943–2024)
2024Angela Lansbury
British actress (1925–2022)
2022Alexei Leonov
Soviet cosmonaut (1934–2019)
2019Clifford Husbands
Barbadian judge
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