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August 3, 2019

On August 3, 2019, six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia. The year's #1 song was "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. Prince Archie of Sussex, Prince Archie of Sussex, Prince Archie of Sussex would arrive in the same year.

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2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.

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On August 3, 2019

  1. 2019 Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

    Russian political and public figure, lawyer (born 1987)

    Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol is a Russian opposition politician, lawyer and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012–2013). She produces the YouTube channel "Navalny Live" of Alexei Navalny. Sobol was a lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation until it was designated as an "extremist organization" by the Putin government in 2021.

  2. 2019 Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

    Mass shooting in Texas, U.S.

    On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23 and injuring 22 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.

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