2021 A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
2019 Indian Air Force fighter-jets target Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camps in Balakot, Pakistan.
2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
2012 A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2012 Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.
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