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      "year": 2020,
      "description": "Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon."
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      "description": "Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed."
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      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign."
    },
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      "year": 2018,
      "description": "Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard."
    },
    {
      "year": 2007,
      "description": "NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched."
    },
    {
      "year": 2006,
      "description": "A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF)."
    },
    {
      "year": 1995,
      "description": "Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins."
    },
    {
      "year": 1987,
      "description": "The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views."
    },
    {
      "year": 1984,
      "description": "The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso."
    },
    {
      "year": 1984,
      "description": "The Ariane 3 rocket is launched for the first time, carrying the Eutelsat I F-2 and Télécom 1A satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit."
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      "description": "Bobby Shmurda, American rapper"
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      "description": "Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer"
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      "year": 1992,
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      "description": "Cole Sprouse, American actor"
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      "year": 2024,
      "description": "Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)"
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      "year": 2024,
      "description": "Duane Thomas, American football player (born 1947)"
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      "year": 2015,
      "description": "Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (born 1925)"
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      "name": "Les_Munro",
      "year": 2015,
      "description": "Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1919)"
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      "description": "John Rudometkin, American basketball player (born 1940)"
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      "description": "Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (born 1936)"
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      "name": "Christian feast day:\nJohn Vianney"
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      "name": "Christian feast day:\nMolua (or Lua)"
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      "name": "Matica slovenská Day (Slovakia)"
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      "name": "Barack Obama Day in Illinois in the United States"
    },
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      "name": "2020 Beirut explosion commemoration day in Lebanon"
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