2016 Kalamazoo shootings
Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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Jared McCain
Jared McCain, American basketball player
On February 20, 2003, the United States conducted its first successful test of a prototype of the Airborne Laser, a weapon system...
"The truth is powerful and it prevails."
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Rafz train crash
Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
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Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939)
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David Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma (born 1941)
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