Chuseok
Korea's harvest moon festival, often called Korean Thanksgiving. Families reunite, make songpyeon (rice cakes), visit ancestral graves, and traffic on the highways is apocalyptic.
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The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria; Syrian air defences responding to the strikes accidentally downed a Russian plane.- 2025Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement.
- 2018A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.
- 2016Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.