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Events (0 years ago today): 2025 - 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.[37]
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist (died 1935)[58]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2013)[82]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1903)[229]
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International Day of Non-Violence
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