§ 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.
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
In 2013: Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.