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On This Day
10 events2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) officialy declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.
2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
2012
U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
2011
A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
2010
During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, earthquakes registering 6.9 and 7.0 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage.
2009
A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.
2007
Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley, in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
1993
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female United States attorney general.
1984
The anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki was released.
1978
After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.