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August
On This Day, August 3
- 2023: Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
- 2019: Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
- 2019: Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
- 2018: Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2014: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.