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1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_by_Samuel_J_Miller,_1847-52.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Pitts_Douglass#/media/File:Douglass_Helen_Eva_Frederick.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE

2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis ends on its third day with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of whom are children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csr9TPGPoxs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAPUcBpc4w

301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOFb6oW6QA

2012 – Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, known for his Oscar-nominated role in The Green Mile, dies at the age of fifty-four after suffering complications from a heart attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clarke_Duncan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd16qltHPXU

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