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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2022
American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
2020
A truck struck and killed four Victoria Police officers on the Eastern Freeway, Australia, the force's deadliest single incident.
2016
The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties.
2013
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
2004
Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.
2000
In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
1993
Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.
1951
Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
1948
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
1945
About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.