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| | frankmarouet @ MindSay |
 | | In 2001, American air forces, working from outdated and faulty maps, bombed a Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan on then-exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah's 87th birthday, which was probably not the 'blast' he'd been hoping for. |
 | | Several prominent and ghastly historical figures were born on this date, including Japanese warlord Niwa Nagahide in 1535, whose rapid ascension to power and suspicious death could not overcome the fact that his name, the better part of five centuries later, bears an uncanny similarity to the modern term for cheap, faux leather. |
 | | Also born today were maligned and oft-unhappy writer Oscar Wilde, Enver Hoxa, the Albanian dictator, and Andrei Chikatilo who made a lot of Russians, mainly prostitutes, runaways, and drifters, very unhappy by killing them. |
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