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    "day": 27,
    "month": 9,
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    "weekday": "Sunday"
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    {
      "year": 2024,
      "description": "Hurricane Helene devastates the Carolinas as a tropical storm, killing hundreds and injuring more."
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "description": "Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians."
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "description": "Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide."
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "description": "63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan."
    },
    {
      "year": 2012,
      "description": "In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots eight people, killing six and injuring 2 and then kills himself."
    },
    {
      "year": 2008,
      "description": "CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk."
    },
    {
      "year": 2007,
      "description": "NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt."
    },
    {
      "year": 2003,
      "description": "The SMART-1 satellite is launched."
    },
    {
      "year": 2001,
      "description": "In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself."
    },
    {
      "year": 1998,
      "description": "The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "Jenna_Ortega",
      "year": 2002,
      "description": "Jenna Ortega, American actress"
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      "name": "Caleb_Love",
      "year": 2001,
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    },
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      "name": "David_Malukas",
      "year": 2001,
      "description": "David Malukas, American race car driver"
    },
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      "name": "Ioana_Mincă",
      "year": 1998,
      "description": "Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jaiden_Animations",
      "year": 1997,
      "description": "Jaiden Animations, American YouTuber and animator"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kwon_Eun-bi",
      "year": 1995,
      "description": "Kwon Eun-bi, South Korean singer and musical actress"
    },
    {
      "name": "Christian_Wood",
      "year": 1995,
      "description": "Christian Wood, American basketball player"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dylan_Walker",
      "year": 1994,
      "description": "Dylan Walker, Australian rugby league player"
    },
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      "name": "Sayak_Chakraborty",
      "year": 1994,
      "description": "Sayak Chakraborty, Indian television actor"
    },
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      "year": 1993,
      "description": "Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer"
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      "year": 2025,
      "description": "Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1924)"
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      "year": 2024,
      "description": "Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)"
    },
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      "year": 2024,
      "description": "Maggie Smith, English actress (born 1934)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael_Gambon",
      "year": 2023,
      "description": "Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor (born 1940)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Madeleine_Tchicaya",
      "year": 2021,
      "description": "Madeleine Tchicaya, Ivorian politician (born 1930)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kavita_Mahajan",
      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator (born 1967)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael_Payton",
      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Michael Payton, American football quarterback  (born 1970)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Manoharsinhji_Pradyumansinhji",
      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman and politician (born 1935)"
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      "name": "Marty_Balin",
      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Marty Balin, American singer, co-founder of the band Jefferson Airplane (born 1942)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hugh_Hefner",
      "year": 2017,
      "description": "Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)"
    }
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      "name": "Christian feast days:\nAdheritus"
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    {
      "name": "Christian feast days:\nBonfilius"
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    {
      "name": "Christian feast days:\nCaius of Milan"
    },
    {
      "name": "Christian feast days:\nHiltrude of Liessies"
    },
    {
      "name": "Christian feast days:\nVincent de Paul"
    },
    {
      "name": "Christian feast days:\nCosmas and Damian"
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      "name": "Christian feast days:\nSeptember 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Consumación de la Independencia (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "name": "French Community Holiday (French community of Belgium)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Independence Day (Turkmenistan), celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991."
    },
    {
      "name": "Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar, September 28 on leap years)"
    },
    {
      "name": "National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Polish Underground State's Day (Poland)"
    },
    {
      "name": "World Tourism Day (International)"
    }
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