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Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for the most gold medals won by an athlete at a single games.- 2019A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
- 2017Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
- 2015A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.