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The Good Friday peace agreement, which ended "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland in 1998 after decades of violence, marks its anniversary Monday, withstanding 25 years of challenges.

Actor Ncuti Gatwa turns 30 and Sarah Ferguson, duchess of York, turns 63, among the famous birthdays for Oct. 15.

Ireland's Republican Sinn Fein party made significant gains on the Democratic Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

On Oct. 15, 1946, Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, sentenced to death as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials, committed suicide in his prison cell on the eve of his scheduled execution.

On Oct. 15, 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards ending the Cold War.

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