International Day of Peace
UN-declared in 1981. The General Assembly marks it by ringing a peace bell cast from coins donated by children of 60 countries.
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Unidentified gunmen began a three-day attack on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of 67 people with at least another 175 wounded.- 2019A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
- 2018LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens
- 2015Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.