World Population Day
UN-established in 1989 to focus attention on family planning, gender equity, and the demographic shifts reshaping every country.
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An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy.- 2021Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
- 2015Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
- 2011Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.