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Events on Thursday 5 August 2010 1
2010Copiapó mining accident and rescue33 miners trapped and rescued in ChileA collapse at the San José copper-gold mine near Copiapó trapped 33 miners underground for 69 days. A rescue capsule brought them to the surface one by one on 13 October, an operation watched live by roughly a billion people worldwide. The rescue was hailed as a triumph of engineering and international cooperation.