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A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

2025

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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

2022

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Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.

2022

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Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

2021

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.

2020

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A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.

2016

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Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.

2016

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Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

2014

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Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket.

2012

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The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.

2010

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Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

2005

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American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.

2003

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Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

2002

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A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.

2001

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Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

1995

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Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1988

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Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.

1988

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The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.

1988

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Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.

1985

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William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity.

1984

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Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war.

1979

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Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.

1978

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A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.

1978

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Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

1978

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Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.

1977

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A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.

1969

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Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.

1968

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Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.

1966

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Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.

1962

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World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.

1945

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Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.

1945

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Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland.

1941

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From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

1939

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Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.

1936

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Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

1935

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History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1926

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An earthquake (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in Dali, China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

1925

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In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

1924

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Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.

1918

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The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

1916

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In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[page needed]

1898

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The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

1872

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Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

1815

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The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1802

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King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

1792

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The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.

1696

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The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.

1660

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Samoset, an Abenaki, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

1621

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Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.

1355

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Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.

1244

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Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

1190

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Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated while practising on the Campus Martius on behalf of Petronius Maximus.

445

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The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II.

-597

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On this day

A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

2025

view article

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

2022

view article

Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.

2022

view article

Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

2021

view article

The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.

2020

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A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.

2016

view article

Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.

2016

view article

Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

2014

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Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket.

2012

view article

The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.

2010

view article

Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

2005

view article

American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.

2003

view article

Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

2002

view article

A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.

2001

view article

Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

1995

view article

Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1988

view article

Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.

1988

view article

The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.

1988

view article

Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.

1985

view article

William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity.

1984

view article

Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war.

1979

view article

Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.

1978

view article

A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.

1978

view article

Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

1978

view article

Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.

1977

view article

A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.

1969

view article

Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.

1968

view article

Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.

1966

view article

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.

1962

view article

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.

1945

view article

Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.

1945

view article

Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland.

1941

view article

From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

1939

view article

Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.

1936

view article

Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

1935

view article

History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1926

view article

An earthquake (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in Dali, China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

1925

view article

In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

1924

view article

Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.

1918

view article

The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

1916

view article

In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[page needed]

1898

view article

The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

1872

view article

Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

1815

view article

The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1802

view article

King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

1792

view article

The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.

1696

view article

The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.

1660

view article

Samoset, an Abenaki, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

1621

view article

Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.

1355

view article

Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.

1244

view article

Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

1190

view article

Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated while practising on the Campus Martius on behalf of Petronius Maximus.

445

view article

The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II.

-597

view article

The 49MB web page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

428 points

206 comments

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Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

Engineering contraptions

48 points

8 comments

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Stop Sloppypasta

Sloppypasta: verbatim LLM output pasted at people. Why it's rude and what to do instead.

236 points

105 comments

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Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

64 points

34 comments

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The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

71 points

6 comments

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Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

264 points

123 comments

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LLMs can be exhausting

Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'...

166 points

124 comments

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The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

130 points

88 comments

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How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

15 points

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What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

37 points

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Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

29 points

13 comments

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How I write software with LLMs

92 points

28 comments

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LLM Architecture Gallery

A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.

347 points

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Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance

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164 comments

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What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

195 points

138 comments

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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

我们向 Chrome 开发者工具 MCP 服务器推出了一项新功能，可让您的编码代理更轻松地调试当前浏览器会话。

437 points

182 comments

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Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions.

246 points

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//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.

131 points

55 comments

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SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files

Tool to decrypt encrypted LTSpice models. Contribute to jtsylve/spice-crypt development by creating an account on GitHub.

28 points

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Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects

Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects - expressed through the language of authorship. Not a judgment. Just transparency. - QAInsights/Quillx

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The 49MB web page

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

Stop Sloppypasta

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

LLMs can be exhausting

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

How I write software with LLMs

LLM Architecture Gallery

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance

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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

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//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

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On this day

A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.

Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.

Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.

Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket.

The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.

Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.

Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.

Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.

The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.

Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.

William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity.

Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war.

Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.

A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.

Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.

A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.

Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.

Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.

Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.

Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland.

From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.

Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

An earthquake (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in Dali, China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.

The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[page needed]

The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.

The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.

Samoset, an Abenaki, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.

Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.

Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated while practising on the Campus Martius on behalf of Petronius Maximus.

The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II.

On this day

A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.

Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.