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On This Day

10 events
2017
Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.
2014
Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.
2011
The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.
2003
With its ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage.
1999
Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
1991
The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
1991
Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
1987
An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
1978
Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
1977
Solomon Islands ratified the adoption of a new flag (pictured).

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