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On This Day

10 events
2022
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
2022
Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin.
2013
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
2011
An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
2010
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
2010
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats.
1998
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
1997
Deep Blue (pictured) defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
1981
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, the first megamusical, opened at the New London Theatre.
1970
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead.

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