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Today is August 14th, 2020 and is a Friday.

On this day in....

2010: The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.

2007: The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.

2006: Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

2003: Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

1996: Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.