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6 June 2024

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2021 - A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing four members of the same family.

Terrorist attack in Ontario, Canada

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2017 - Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

2011–2024 armed conflict in Syria

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1985 - The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)

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1982 - Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war

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1976 - A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Peter Joinud Mojuntin, along with nine others.

Air accident at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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