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October 3, 2015

On October 3, 2015, forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. The year's #1 song was "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales would arrive in the same year.

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2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.

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On October 3, 2015

  1. 2015 Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

    2015 U.S. air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan

    On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières in the city of Kunduz, in the eponymous province in northern Afghanistan. 42 people were killed and over 30 were injured. MSF condemned the incident, calling it a deliberate breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime.

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Died on October 3, 2015

Denis Healey British politician (1917–2015)
Muhammad Nawaz Khan Pakistani writer
Javed Iqbal Pakistani writer and judge (1924–2015)

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Princess Charlotte of Wales 2015– British royal, and third in line to the British throne
Princess Charlotte of Wales 2015– British royal, and third in line to the British throne
Princess Charlotte of Wales 2015– British royal, and third in line to the British throne
Princess Charlotte of Wales 2015– British royal, and third in line to the British throne

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