§ 01 — Observances
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What we celebrate today.
No public holidays on record for this date.
No public holidays on record for this date.
Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted fugitive, is killed by the United States Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill.
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
In 2014: Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.