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2025: The first EF5 tornado in 12 years occurs in Enderlin, North Dakota.
2019: Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries.
2011: RusAir Flight 9605 crashes in Besovets during approach to Petrozavodsk Airport, killing 47.
2003: The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
1996: Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module.

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