Notable Deaths on December 11

Q: Who died on December 11?

Notable people who died on December 11 include: Pope Damasus I (born c.304), Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, Nikephoros II Phokas, Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Averroes.

Q: What is Sam Cooke known for?

Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (born 1931)

1964 — Sam Cooke

American singer-songwriter (born 1931)

December 11 has seen 95 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 384 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 95 people 384 – 2024

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Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the "King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music

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During his thirteen-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top 10 of Billboard's Black Singles chart

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In 1964, he was shot and killed by the manager of a motel in Los Angeles

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In 2015, Cooke was ranked number 28 in Billboard magazine's list of the "35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time".

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Samuel Cooke was an American soul singer and songwriter

Pope Damasus I (born c.304)

Pope Damasus I, also known as Damasus of Rome, was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384. He presided over the Council of Rome of 382, which established the canon, or official list, of sacred scripture.

384

Al-Fath ibn Khaqan

chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil

Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān was an Abbasid official and one of the most prominent figures of the court of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil. The son of a Turkic general of Caliph al-Mu'tasim, al-Fath was raised at the caliphal palace…

861

Nikephoros II Phokas

Byzantine emperor (born 912)

Nikephoros II Phokas, Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. His career, not uniformly successful in matters of statecraft or of war, nonetheless greatly contributed to the resurgence of…

969

Al-Afdal Shahanshah

Egyptian political adviser (born 1066)

Al-Afdal Shahanshah, born Abu al-Qasim Shahanshah bin Badr al-Jamali, was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. According to a later biographical encyclopedia, he was surnamed al-Malik al-Afdal, but this is not…

1121

Averroes

Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (born 1126)

Ibn Rushd, Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics,…

1198

Ögedei Khan

Mongolian emperor (born 1186)

Ögedei Khan was the second khan of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.

1241

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Welsh prince (born 1223)

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd or Llywelyn the Last was Prince of Gwynedd from 1255 to 1282. After successful campaigns across Wales in 1257, Llywelyn proclaimed himself Prince of Wales in 1258, and was recognised as such by…

1282

Michael VIII Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor (born 1225)

Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death in 1282, and previously as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261. Michael VIII was the founder of the…

1282

Henry IV of Castile

King of the Crown of Castile (born 1425)

Henry IV of Castile, nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Castile and León and the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Castile and León. During Henry's reign, the nobles became more powerful and the nation became…

1474

Pietro Accolti

Italian cardinal (born 1455)

Pietro Accolti, known as the "cardinal of Ancona", was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and judge of the Roman Rota.

1532

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo

3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (born 1508)

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba, known as the Grand Duke of Alba in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke or shortly 'Alva' in the Netherlands and Belgium, was a Spanish military officer,…

1582

Adam Elsheimer

German artist working in Rome (born 1578)

Adam Elsheimer was a German Baroque painter who worked in Rome. Though his career was short, his relatively few paintings were very influential in the early 17th century. His works were nearly all small oils on copper…

1610

Louis

Grand Condé, French general (born 1621)

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, particularly celebrated for his triumphs…

1686

Ranuccio II Farnese

Duke of Parma (born 1630)

Ranuccio II Farnese was the sixth Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1646 until his death nearly 50 years later. He was also the Duke of Castro from 1646 until 1649.

1694

John Strype

English priest, historian, and author (born 1643)

John Strype was an English clergyman, historian and biographer from London. He became a merchant when settling in Petticoat Lane. In his twenties, he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, Essex and later became…

1737

Edmund Curll

English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)

Edmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through…

1747

Richard Brocklesby

English physician (born 1722)

Richard Brocklesby, an English physician, was born at Minehead, Somerset.

1797

Maria Leopoldina of Austria (born 1797)

Dona Maria Leopoldina of Austria was the first Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro I from 12 October 1822 until her death. She was also Queen of Portugal during her husband's brief reign as King Dom Pedro…

1826

Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (born 1771)

Emperor Kōkaku was the 119th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kōkaku reigned from 1779 until his abdication in 1817 in favor of his son, Emperor Ninkō. After his abdication, he ruled…

1840

Kamehameha V of Hawaii (born 1830)

Kamehameha V, reigned as the fifth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1863 to 1872. His motto was "Onipaʻa": immovable, firm, steadfast, or determined; he is said to have worked diligently for his people and…

1872

Oliver Winchester

American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (born 1810)

Oliver Fisher Winchester was an American businessman and politician, best known as being the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

1880

William Milligan

Scottish theologian and scholar (born 1821)

William Milligan was a renowned Scottish theologian. He studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his commentary on the…

1892

Charles Townsend

American fencer, engineer, and academic (born 1872)

Samuel George Fitzhugh Townsend was an American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He competed under the name Fitzhugh Townsend. It was known that Fitzhugh was his middle name and was thought for a long…

1906

Ludwig Mond

German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (born 1839)

Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.

1909

Carl von In der Maur

Governor of Liechtenstein (born 1852)

Carl Josef Anton von In der Maur auf Strelburg und zu Freifeld was an Austrian aristocrat and statesman who twice served in the court of Johann II as the Governor of Liechtenstein from 1884 until 1892 and again from…

1913

Ivan Cankar

Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (born 1876)

Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He…

1918

Olive Schreiner

South African author and activist (born 1855)

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with…

1920

Juho Kekkonen

Finnish forestry manager and tenant farmer (born 1873)

Juho Kekkonen was Finnish head of forestry, logging caretaker and tenant farmer. He was also known as the father of Urho Kekkonen, the 8th President of Finland.

1928

Myron Grimshaw

American baseball player (born 1875)

Myron Frederick "Moose" Grimshaw was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1905 through 1907 for the Boston Americans. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 173 lb., Grimshaw was a switch-hitter and…

1936

Jaan Anvelt

Estonian theorist and politician (born 1884)

Jaan Anvelt, was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR, was a leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first premier of the Soviet Executive Committee of Estonia, and the…

1937

Hugh Thackeray Turner

English architect and painter (born 1853)

Hugh Thackeray Turner was an English Arts and Crafts architect and also an amateur china painter.

1937

Christian Lous Lange

Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism.

1938

John Gillespie Magee

Jr., American pilot and poet (born 1922)

John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.

1941

Émile Picard

French mathematician and academic (born 1856)

Charles Émile Picard was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1924.

1941

Charles Fabry

French physicist and academic (born 1867)

Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.

1945

Leslie Comrie

New Zealand astronomer and author (born 1893)

Leslie John Comrie FRS was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation.

1950

Mustafa Muğlalı

Turkish general (born 1882)

Mustafa Muğlalı was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army. He served as an officer in World War I and the Turkish War of Independence. As a General of the Third Army, he took part in the…

1951

Hijri Dede

Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (born 1881)

Mahmud ibn Ali ibn Naziri known by his pen name Hijri and his title Dede/Dade was an Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer.Born in Kirkuk, he grew up into a Kakaie family and was taught by them. He started working as a teacher…

1951

Sedat Simavi

Turkish journalist and director (born 1896)

Sedat Simavi was a Turkish journalist, writer and film director. He established many newspapers and magazines.

1953

Musidora

French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)

Jeanne Roques, known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. A major figure of French silent cinema, she became internationally known for portraying Irma…

1957

Jim Bottomley

American baseball player and manager (born 1900)

James Leroy Bottomley was an American professional baseball player, scout and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman from 1922 to 1937, most prominently as a member of the St. Louis…

1959

Percy Kilbride

American actor (born 1888)

Percy William Kilbride was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.

1964

Augusta Fox Bronner

American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (born 1881)

Augusta Fox Bronner was an American psychologist and criminologist, best known for her work in juvenile psychology. She co-directed the first child guidance clinic, and her research shaped psychological theories about…

1966

Richard Sagrits

Estonian painter and author (born 1910)

Richard Sagrits was an Estonian painter.

1968

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

American publisher (born 1891)

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than…

1968

Maurice McDonald

American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (born 1902)

Richard James McDonald and Maurice James "Mac" McDonald, known as the McDonald brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's.

1971

Lee Wiley

American singer (born 1908)

Lee Wiley was an American jazz singer during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

1975

Nihal Atsız

Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1905)

Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız was a prominent Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet. Atsız self-identified as a racist, Pan-Turkist, Turanist, and was the ideologue of Atsızism. He was the author of over 30 books…

1975

Vincent du Vigneaud

American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide…

1978

Paul O'Dea

American baseball player and manager (born 1920)

Paul O'Dea was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. He saw Major League service during World War II for the 1944 and 1945 Cleveland Indians. He threw and batted left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m)…

1978

James J. Gibson

American psychologist and author (born 1904)

James Jerome Gibson was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs…

1979

Neil Ritchie

Guyanese-English general (born 1897)

General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, was a British Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. During the Second World War he commanded the British Eighth Army in the North African campaign from November…

1983

Oskar Seidlin

German-American author, poet, and scholar (born 1911)

Oskar Seidlin was a Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany first to Switzerland and then to the U.S. He taught German language and literature as a professor at Smith College, Middlebury College, Ohio State University, and…

1984

George Waggner

American director, producer and actor (born 1894)

George Waggner was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film The Wolf Man. For some unknown reason, Waggner sometimes configured his name in mostly…

1984

G. A. Kulkarni

Indian author and academic (born 1923)

G. A. Kulkarni, or known simply as "GA", was an Indian Sahitya Akademi Award winner Marathi writer of short stories.

1987

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

American photographer (born 1895)

Louise Emma Augusta Dahl-Wolfe was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. At Harper's Bazaar she pioneered a new standard in…

1989

Robert Q. Lewis

American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (born 1921)

Robert Q. Lewis was an American radio and television entertainer, comedian, game show host and actor. Although born with the Goldberg name, he grew up as Lewis, his father's professional name.

1991

Artur Lundkvist

Swedish author and critic (born 1906)

Nils Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.

1991

Philip Phillips

American archaeologist and scholar (born 1900)

Philip Phillips was an influential archaeologist in the United States during the 20th century.

1994

Greg Bahnsen

American minister and philosopher (born 1948)

Greg Bahnsen was an American Calvinist philosopher and Christian apologist. He was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a full-time Scholar in Residence for the Southern California Center for Christian…

1995

Willie Rushton

English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (born 1937)

William George Rushton was an English cartoonist, comedian, actor and satirist who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

1996

Eddie Chapman

English spy (born 1914)

Edward Arnold Chapman was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service…

1997

Simon Jeffes

English guitarist and composer (born 1949)

Simon Harry Piers Jeffes was an English classically trained guitarist, composer and arranger. He formed, and was the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet Still Life at the…

1997

André Lichnerowicz

French physicist and mathematician (born 1915)

André Lichnerowicz was a French differential geometer and mathematical physicist. He made pioneering contributions to the theory of the scalar curvature, holonomy groups, Kähler geometry, and the mathematical study of…

1998

Lynn Strait

American singer-songwriter (born 1968)

James Lynn Strait II was an American singer. He was the lead vocalist and lyricist for the nu metal band Snot.

1998

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

Pakistani politician and diplomat (born 1915)

Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. She joined the Pakistani foreign service in 1948, and was the country's first female civil servant, as well as the first Muslim woman…

2000

David Lewis

American actor (born 1916)

David Lewis was an American actor. He was best known for being the original actor to portray Edward Quartermaine from 1978 to 1993 on the American soap opera General Hospital.

2000

Mainza Chona

Zambian lawyer and politician, first Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1930)

Mainza Mathias Chona was a Zambian politician and founder of UNIP who served as the third vice-president of Zambia from 1970 to 1973 and Prime Minister on two occasions: from 25 August 1973 to 27 May 1975 and from 20…

2001

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ivorian author and playwright (born 1927)

Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist.

2003

José Luis Cuciuffo

Argentinian footballer (born 1962)

José Luis Cuciuffo was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a centre back and who was part of the 1986 FIFA World Cup-winning Argentina national team.

2004

Arthur Lydiard

New Zealand runner and coach (born 1917)

Arthur Leslie Lydiard was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it…

2004

Bettie Page

American model (born 1923)

Bettie Mae Page was an American model who gained recognition in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She was often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups": her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have…

2008

Dick Hoerner

American football player (born 1922)

Lester Junior "Dick" Hoerner was an American professional football player who was a fullback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) from 1947 to 1951. He played college football for the Iowa…

2010

John Patrick Foley

American cardinal (born 1935)

John Patrick Foley was an American Catholic prelate who served as Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011. He previously served as -president of the Pontifical Council…

2011

Galina Vishnevskaya

Russian soprano and actress (born 1926)

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters,…

2012

Mendel Weinbach

Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (born 1933)

Chona Menachem Mendel (Mendel) Weinbach was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, educator, author, and speaker. As the co-founder and dean of Ohr Somayach Institutions, a Jerusalem-based yeshiva for newly-observant Jewish men, he…

2012

Ravi Shankar

Indian-American sitar player and composer (born 1920)

Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in…

2012

Nadir Afonso

Portuguese painter and architect (born 1920)

Nadir Afonso, GOSE was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in…

2013

Barbara Branden

Canadian-American author and academic (born 1929)

Barbara Joan Branden was a Canadian-American writer, editor, and lecturer, known for her relationship and subsequent break with novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand.

2013

Javier Jáuregui (boxer)

Mexican boxer (born 1973)

Javier Rogelio Jáuregui Delgadillo, also known as El Chatito, was a Mexican professional boxer in the lightweight division.

2013

Sheikh Mussa Shariefi

Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1942)

Hujjatul Islam Sheikh Muhammad Mussa Shariefi was a senior Islamic Twelver Shia religious scholar/alim from the Kargil district of Ladakh. He was renowned for his philosophical and mystical Friday prayer sermons which…

2013

Hans Wallat

German conductor and director (born 1929)

Hans Wallat was a German conductor, GMD in Bremen, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Dortmund and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. A specialist for the stage works of Richard Wagner, he appeared at the Bayreuth Festival…

2014

Abish Kekilbayev

Kazakh academic and politician (born 1939)

Äbış Kekılbaev was a Kazakh public and political figure, Hero of Labour of Kazakhstan (2009), People’s Writer of Kazakhstan (1992), and Honored Cultural Worker of the Kyrgyz Republic (1995). He is a laureate of the…

2015

H. Arnold Steinberg

Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (born 1933)

H. Arnold Steinberg, was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and Chancellor of McGill University.

2015

Hema Upadhyay

Indian painter and sculptor (born 1972)

Hema Upadhyay was an Indian visual artist, based in Mumbai. She was known for photography and sculptural installations. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015.

2015

John "Hot Rod" Williams

American basketball player (born 1962)

John "Hot Rod" Williams was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1986 to 1999.

2015

Ken Woolley

Australian architect (born 1933)

Kenneth Frank Charles Woolley was an Australian architect. In a career spanning 60 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing with Pettit and Sevitt, as well as for being a four-time winner of the…

2015

Keith Chegwin

British TV presenter (born 1957)

Keith Chegwin, also known by the nickname Cheggers, was an English television presenter and actor, appearing in several children's entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and…

2017

James Flynn

New Zealand intelligence researcher. (born 1934)

James Robert Flynn was an American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and intelligence researcher. Originally from Washington, D.C., and educated at the University of Chicago, Flynn emigrated to Dunedin in 1963, where…

2020

Anne Rice

American author (born 1941)

Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially…

2021

Andre Braugher

American actor (born 1962)

Andre Keith Braugher was an American actor known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Captain Raymond Holt in the Fox/NBC police comedy…

2023

David Bonderman

American billionaire businessman (born 1942)

David Bonderman was an American billionaire businessman. He was the founding partner of TPG Inc., and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital. He was also one of the minority owners of the NBA's Boston Celtics as well as…

2024

Khalil Haqqani

Afghan politician and warlord (born 1966)

Khalil Rahman Haqqani was an Afghan politician and military leader. A Pashtun mujahideen commander, he was designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States.

2024

Purushottam Upadhyay

Indian musician, singer and composer (born 1934)

Purushottam Upadhyay was an Indian musician, singer and composer who primarily worked in Gujarati and Hindi languages. He was well known in Gujarati semi-classical music and composed music for over 20 films and 30…

2024

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Sam Cooke — American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)

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The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. Wikipedia →

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The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence. Wikipedia →

2017

New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. Wikipedia →

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