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On This Day
10 events2023
Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds.
2015
A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
2009
The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.
1976
A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties.
1971
After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
1963
During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
1950
The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
1943
World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
1941
The Holocaust: The Theresienstadt Ghetto was founded as a waystation to Nazi extermination camps and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution.
1925
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre (pictured) opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.