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17 April 2024

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2014 - NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.

American space and aeronautics agency

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2013 - An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.

2013 explosion of ammonium nitrate in Texas, USA

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2006 - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others.

Suicide bombings by Palestinian groups in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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1986 - The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.

Group of islands in Cornwall, England

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1984 - Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations.

Territorial police force of Greater London

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