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The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.

Guinean President Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his residence in Conakry.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.

United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111.

The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.

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