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Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast days: Chagnoald
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Christian feast days: Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
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Events
Imam Shamil surrenders to the Russians, bringing the Caucasian Imamate to an end.
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Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
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Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
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The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
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Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
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Births
W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (died 1979)
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DJ Spooky, American electronic and experimental hip hop musician
Read about DJ SpookyDevang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
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Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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Deaths
Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (born 1623)
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Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827)
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