International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The date Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. The UN designated it in 2005 — survivors light six candles, one per million murdered.
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Full history →Notable · 2011
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.- 2023Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.
- 2023A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.
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