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Business and economy Affirmative action in the United States The U.S. Justice Department announces internally that it is to start investigating colleges which have admissions policies that are seen as unfair to Asian Americans. (Newsweek) (The New York Times) Disasters and accidents Floods in the United States Several streets in Miami and Miami Beach are underwater after Tropical Depression ...
2 January The government announces proposals to build seventeen new towns and villages across the English countryside. [2] Yassar Yaqub is killed in a police shooting during an operation on the M62 near Huddersfield. [3] 9 January – Seven year old Katie Rough is fatally asphyxiated and stabbed in the neck near her home in Woodthorpe, York.
21 April – Britain goes a full day without using coal power to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, according to the National Grid. [50] 29 April – The UK's Anthony Joshua becomes WBA World Heavyweight Champion after beating Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium. [51]
2 August – The Duke of Edinburgh carries out his final official engagement before retiring from public duties at age 96. [39] 21 August – The chimes of Big Ben fall silent as a four-year renovation of the building begins. [40] 29 August – Kezia Dugdale resigns as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party after two years in the role [41]
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
August 2 in recent years ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year ... American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2017) 1939 – Wes Craven, American director, ...
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Health and medicine Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS According to the United Nations, the Philippines has the largest increase in HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region with about a 140% increase in cases from 2010 until 2016 possibly causing a 'national emergency.' (ABC.net.au) (Human Rights Watch) Law and crime GTA gang Three so-called GTA gang members are shot dead and four others are wounded ...