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Bloomsday

Fans of James Joyce retracing Leopold Bloom's Dublin wanderings from Ulysses. Participants dress in Edwardian costume, eat kidneys for breakfast, and pretend they've read the whole thing.

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Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

2019Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
2016Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
2015American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.