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July 26, 2016

On July 26, 2016, the Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed. The year's #1 song was "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber. The Rizzler, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Prince Oscar would arrive in the same year.

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2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

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On July 26, 2016

  1. 2016 The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.

    2016 hate crime in Japan

    The Sagamihara stabbings were committed on 26 July 2016 in Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six others were injured, thirteen severely, at a care home for disabled people. The crimes were committed by a 26-year-old man, identified as Satoshi Uematsu , a former employee of the care facility.

  2. 2016 Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

    American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She served as Secretary of State in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She was previously a senator for New York from 2001 to 2009.

  3. 2016 Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

    Long-range solar-powered aircraft

    Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted Breitling Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circle the world non-stop. The Solar Impulse project's goals were to make the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power and to bring attention to clean technologies.

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Died on July 26, 2016

Solomon Feferman American philosopher and mathematician

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The Rizzler 2016– American internet personality
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck 2016– Bhutanese prince
Prince Oscar 2016– Duke of Skåne
The Rizzler 2016– American internet personality
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck 2016– Bhutanese prince
Prince Oscar 2016– Duke of Skåne

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