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2023

Elton John performed what he says will be the final show of the last tour of his career. The 76-year-old, multi-award-winning musician took the stage for the last time as a touring artist in Stockholm, Sweden.

2021

The total number of known deaths from COVID-19 exceeds 4 million (equal to the total number of combat deaths since 1982).

2019

American financier Jeffrey Epstein is charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking of minors.

2018

South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks the LPGA record for 72 holes. She finishes at 31 under par (257), winning the Thornberry Creek Classic.

2011

The space shuttle Atlantis launches on its final mission.

2000

Author J.K. Rowling publishes the fourth book in her Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

1999

The novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third in the series written by J.K. Rowling, is published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom.