World Tuberculosis Day
On this date in 1882, Robert Koch announced the discovery of the TB bacterium — a disease that still kills 1.3 million people a year despite being curable.
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- Awareness
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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2015
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus A320, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.