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Today in History
Saturday, 27 December 2025
2008
Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead
2007
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
2004
Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
2002
Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
2001
The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
1997
Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
1996
Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
1985
Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
1979
1978
Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
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