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January 8, 2021

On January 8, 2021, twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. The year's #1 song was "Levitating" by Dua Lipa. Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Princess Lilibet of Sussex would arrive in the same year.

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2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.

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On January 8, 2021

  1. 2021 Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.

    2021 police raid on the gang controlling La Vega Parish, Caracas, Venezuela

    The La Vega raid was a police raid that occurred on 8 January 2021 in La Vega Parish, Caracas, Venezuela. The objective of the raid was to take control of La Vega Parish, which was controlled by a criminal organization, led by Leonardo José Polanco Angulo; he was a drug lord, known as "El Loco Leo". Members of the Venezuelan National Police (PNB), the Special Action Forces (FAES) and the Venezuelan National Guard seized control of the parish, killing a number of people in the neighborhood.

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Iancu Țucărman Romanian Jewish Holocaust and Iași pogrom survivor

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