November 28·Every year

National Day of Listening

Created by StoryCorps and observed the day after Thanksgiving, National Day of Listening encourages Americans to record a meaningful conversation with someone they love. StoryCorps has collected over 700,000 interviews since 2003 — the largest oral history archive in the world. The most common subject across all recordings: I wish I had said I love you more.

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LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.

2020Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.
2016LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense
2014Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.