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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2014
A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.- 2024The Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, takes place, resulting in the death of three people.
- 2022A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.
- 2014Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.