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September 2, 2022

On September 2, 2022, eighteen people are killed and 23 others are injured by a suicide bombing at a Sunni mosque in Herat, Afghanistan. The year's #1 song was "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals.

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2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.

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On September 2, 2022

  1. 2022 Eighteen people are killed and 23 others are injured by a suicide bombing at a Sunni mosque in Herat, Afghanistan.

    Suicide attack in Afghanistan

    On 2 September 2022, a suicide bombing occurred at a mosque in Herat, northwestern Afghanistan.

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Died on September 2, 2022

Frank Drake American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
T. V. Sankaranarayanan Indian musical artist (1945–2022)

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