History Today: When former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated

Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was shot dead while giving a campaign speech in Nara on July 8, 2022. A former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, Tetsuya Yamagami, was arrested for the assassination of the prime minister. On this day in 1497, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama embarked on his first voyage to India

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