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March 27, 2023

On March 27, 2023, seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The year's #1 song was "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen.

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2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

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On March 27, 2023

  1. 2023 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Mass shooting in Tennessee, U.S.

    On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, United States, when 28-year-old Aiden Hale, a transgender man, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers. Hale was a former student of the school who had been planning the attack for years. It is the deadliest school shooting in Tennessee history.

  2. 2023 Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

    2023 fire in Mexico

    On 27 March 2023, a fire occurred at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States. The fire killed 40 people and left 27 others seriously injured. According to Vice interviewees, prison officials demanded bribes from migrants to release them and avoid deportation.

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