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India
1896- Suryakant Tripathi, Also Known As Nirala, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, And Story-Writer, Was Born.
1999- Lahore Declaration Signed Between India’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee And Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif On Nuclear Weapons Use.
2011- Aranmula Ponnamma, A National Award-Winning Malayalam Film Actress, Died On This Day.
2013- 21 People Were Murdered And 54 Injured In A Bombing In Hyderabad, India.
2018- Indian Film Star Kamal Haasan Launched A New Political Party – Makkal Needhi Maiam In Tamil Nadu.
ACROSS THE WORLD
1595: The Jesuit Poet Robert Southwell Was Hanged For “Treason,” Being A Catholic.
1631: Michael Romanov, Son Of The Patriarch Of Moscow, Was Elected As The Russian Tsar.
1797: Trinidad, West Indies Surrendered To The British.
1828: The Cherokee Phoenix’s First Issue Was Printed, Both In English And In The Newly Invented Cherokee Alphabet.
1862: The Texas Rangers Won A Confederate Victory In The Battle Of Val Verde, New Mexico.
1878: The World’s First Telephone Book Was Issued By The New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company That Contained Its 50 Subscribers’ Names.
1885: The Washington Monument Was Dedicated In Washington, D.C. This Year.
1949: Nicaragua And Costa Rica Signed A Treaty Of Friendship, Ending Hostilities Over Their Borders.
1951: The U. S. Eighth Army Launched Operation Killer, Which Was A Counterattack To Push Chinese Forces North Of The Han River In Korea.
1960: Havana Places All The Cuban Industry Under The Direct Control Of The Government.
1972: Richard Nixon Arrived In Beijing, China, And Became The First U.S. President To Visit A Country That The U.S Did Not Diplomatically Recognize.
1974: A Report Claimed That The Use Of Defoliants By The U.S. Had Scarred Vietnam For A Century.
