§ 01 — Observances
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What we celebrate today.
- i. World Telecommunication Day Global
A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
Pamir Airways Flight 112 crashes in Afghanistan's Shakardara District, killing 44.
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Today is celebrated as World Telecommunication Day in Global.