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On This Day

10 events
2011
Arab Spring: On the Day of Rage, Bahraini youths began an uprising against the government in 55 marches across 25 locations.
2008
A gunman opened fire into a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, killing five people and injuring twenty-one others.
2007
The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards.
2005
The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
1992
Sri Temasek (pictured), the official residence of the prime minister of Singapore, was declared a national monument.
1990
Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashed near Hindustan Airport during its approach to the airport, which resulted in 92 out of the 146 people on board being killed.
1990
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
1989
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel considered to be blasphemous by some Muslims.
1979
Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped by unknown agents and killed during a gun battle between Afghan police and the perpetrators.
1961
Lawrencium, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

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