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2023 Nashville school shooting
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2023 Nashville school shooting

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On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, United States, when 28-year-old Aiden Hale, a transgender man, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot …

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Justine Siegemund
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Justine Siegemund, or Siegemundin, was a Silesian midwife. Her obstetrical book, The Court Midwife (1690), was the first…

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Simeon Stylites
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Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite was a Syrian Christian ascetic who achieved notability by living 36 years on top o…

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On This Day

10 events
2016
The_Two_Hundred
American Dad! aired it's critically acclaimed two-hundredth episode.
2015
Makka_al-Mukarama_hotel_attack
A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
1999
Kosovo_War
Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.
1997
Tragedy_of_Otranto
In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
1979
James_Callaghan
British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
1946
United_States_Department_of_State
The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
1942
World_War_II
Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
1935
Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany
The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
1933
Imperial_Airways
After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
1918
World_War_I
World War I: British and Australian troops defeated German forces at the First Battle of Dernancourt in northern France.

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