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On This Day, April 23

  • 2024: The 2024 Lumut mid-air collision in Malaysia kills 10 people while rehearsing for the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy.
  • 2019: The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing and presumed dead.
  • 2018: A vehicle-ramming attack kills 11 people and injures 15 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
  • 2013: At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
  • 2005: The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", is published by co-founder Jawed Karim.

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