Human Rights Day
Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948. Read the preamble once; it still punches.
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A tornado strikes an Amazon warehouse during increased holiday demand, killing six sheltering workers.- 2021A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.
- 2019The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
- 2017ISIL is defeated in Iraq.