A look back at history on this date
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Windows 11 is released to the general public.
In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.
An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
Jacob Tremblay
Canadian actor (born 2006)
Born 2006Washington Sundar
Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Born 1999Exequiel Palacios
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Born 1998Michael Hoecht
Canadian American football player (born 1997)
Born 1997Jewell Loyd
American basketball player (born 1993)
Born 1993Wakamotoharu Minato
Japanese professional sumo wrestler
Born 1993Kevin Magnussen
Danish racing driver (born 1992)
Born 1992Cody Zeller
American basketball player (born 1992)
Born 1992Robert Coover
American novelist (1932–2024)
2024Eberhard van der Laan
Dutch politician
2017Brock Yates
American motorsport journalist (1933–2016)
2016Chantal Akerman
Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)
2015Joker Arroyo
Filipino politician (1927–2015)
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