How Many Days Until September 23?

This day in history: September 23

1. 1983

   Flying from Pakistan, Gulf Air Flight 771 was bombed up by the Abu Nidal Organization while on approach over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing all 112 people on board.

2. 1997

   Irish rock band U2 performed in Sarajevo, the first major artist to hold a concert in the city since the end of the Bosnian War.

3. 2002

   The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.

4. 2008

   A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide.

5. 2010

   Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.

6. 2016

   Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany.

7. 2019

   The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.

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