§ 01 — Observances
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What we celebrate today.
- i. International Day of Peace Global
A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.
Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Today is celebrated as International Day of Peace in Global.