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On This Day, May 15

2024: Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is shot and critically injured while meeting with supporters at an event in Handlová.
2023: The UN commemorates the Palestinian Nakba Day for the first time.
2013: An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
2010: Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
2008: California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

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