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Presidents' Day

US federal holiday on the third Monday of February, originally Washington's Birthday (Feb 22). Marketing made it 'Presidents' Day' in the 1980s — government still calls it Washington's Birthday on paper.

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At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town, Pakistan.

2021Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
2013A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2006The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.