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August 19·Every year

World Humanitarian Day

Marks the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 aid workers. A day for the people who run toward crises while everyone else runs away.

Category: Awareness
Observed in: United StatesofficialUnited KingdomofficialSwitzerlandofficialKenyaofficial

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Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.

2017Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
2013The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
2010Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.