§ 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.
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
In 2015: A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.