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The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins (pictured). It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. In writing the novel, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012. (Full article...)

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The four adult defendants in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case are sentenced to death.
More than one million Catalans form a human chain (pictured) in support of the independence of Catalonia.
At least 43 people are killed in Hindu–Muslim clashes in Muzaffarnagar, India.
The 125th session of the International Olympic Committee awards the 2020 Summer Olympics to Tokyo and elects Thomas Bach as IOC president.
A center-right coalition led by the Conservative Party wins a majority in the Norwegian parliamentary election.

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September 14: Feast of the Cross (Christianity); Yom Kippur ends at nightfall (Judaism, 2013)

AD 81 – Domitian became the last Flavian emperor of Rome, succeeding his brother Titus.
1763 – About 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion attacked a British Army detachment, killing 81 soldiers.
1926 – The Locarno Treaties establishing post-First World War territorial settlements were formally ratified by the signatory nations and came into effect.
1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who became the new president.
2008 – All 88 people aboard Aeroflot Flight 821 died when the aircraft crashed on approach to Perm Airport in Perm Krai, Russia.

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Alena Zavarzina (b. 1989) is a Russian snowboarder who won a gold medal at the 2011 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.

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