A look back at history on this date
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Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
Noah Schnapp
American actor (born 2004)
Born 2004Anton Lundell
Finnish ice hockey player (born 2001)
Born 2001Max Plath
Australian rugby league player
Born 2001C. J. Stroud
American football player (born 2001)
Born 2001CJ Abrams
American baseball player (born 2000)
Born 2000Jin Boyang
Chinese figure skater (born 1997)
Born 1997Jonathan Isaac
American basketball player (born 1997)
Born 1997Bang Chan
Australian singer and rapper (born 1997)
Born 1997Patricia Routledge
English actress and singer (1929–2025)
2025Michel Blanc
French actor, writer and director (1952–2024)
2024Pierre Christin
French comics writer
2024Cid Moreira
Brazilian journalist and television anchor (1927–2024)
2024Mary O'Rourke
Irish politician (1937–2024)
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