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First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

2023

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A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people.

2022

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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.

2020

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A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.

2015

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Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.

2014

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Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.

2014

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Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India.

2013

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The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

2005

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Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

1995

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

1991

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Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1985

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The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

1983

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A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead.

1983

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El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

1980

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Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

1975

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Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).

1975

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The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

1973

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A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring about the reunification of Korea.

1968

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The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

1961

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Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.

1959

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Hungarian Revolution: The government of Imre Nagy recognizes newly established revolutionary workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads anti-Soviet militias in an attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Working People's Party.

1956

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President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.

1953

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A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.

1948

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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.

1947

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Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

1944

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World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.

1942

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President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

1941

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Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

1941

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Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.

1938

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The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

1920

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World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.

1918

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World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments.

1918

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Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)

1905

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The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

1888

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Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

1864

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Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

1863

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Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide.

1858

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Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France

1836

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Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1831

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Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.

1817

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War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.

1806

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France and the Holy Roman Empire sign a peace treaty at Ryswick, the last of a series of treaties which ends the Nine Years' War.

1697

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Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.

1657

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Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.

1340

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The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.

1270

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Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.

1137

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Election of Pope Marinus II following the death of Pope Stephen VIII in the same month.

942

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Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

758

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Election of Pope John VI following the death of Pope Sergius I in the previous month.

701

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Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.

637

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Emperor Hadrian establishes the city of Antinoöpolis on the Nile in honour of his companion Antinous, creating a new Hellenizing foundation in Roman Egypt.

130

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In my previous blog posts, Azure’s Weakest Link? and Azure’s Weakest Link - Full Cross-Tenant Compromise, I gave an overview of the severely insecure architecture behind API Connections in Azure, a part of Azure Logic Apps, and an instance of a full cross-tenant compromise using these inherent flaws. Now I am back with some more vulnerabilities in this system, each giving the same primitives to the attacker. In total, the vulnerabilities here netted me a cool $200,000. I also held a talk detailing this at Blue Hat Asia 2026, and when the recordings are out, I will add a link here. TL;DR API Connections allow anyone to fully compromise any other connection worldwide, giving full access to the connected backend. This includes cross-tenant com

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Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

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