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October 28, 2013

On October 28, 2013, five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China. The year's #1 song was "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz. Big Justice, Prince George of Wales, Big Justice would arrive in the same year.

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2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

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On October 28, 2013

  1. 2013 Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.

    Terrorist attack in Beijing, China

    On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby. Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim.

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Died on October 28, 2013

Tetsuharu Kawakami Japanese baseball player and manager (1920–2013)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki 40th Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991)
Aleksandar Tijanić Serbian journalist
Rajendra Yadav Indian writer (1929–2013)

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Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
Prince George of Wales 2013–
Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
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Big Justice 2013– American social media personality
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