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2008 - In Kauhajoki, Finland, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari kills ten people at a college before shooting himself and later dying in hospital.

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2009 - Death of Ertugrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (born 1912).

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2009 - India successfully launches an Oceansat-2 Indian remote-sensing satellite and six smaller foreign satellites in a single mission.

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2010 - Video chain Blockbuster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with a plan to cut debt from near $1 billion down to $100 million, and giving a group of bondholders led by billionaire Carl Icahn and hedge funds a controlling stake in the company.

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2010 - Brazil's partially state-owned oil company Petrobras sells US$70 billion in shares in the world's biggest-ever stock offering.

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