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The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Ci…
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The 2019 TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced …
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On This Day
10 events2014
A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.
2012
A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.
1997
Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.
1997
"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
1971
The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.
1938
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.
1930
German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.
1922
Gabriel Narutowicz (pictured), the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.
1918
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
1914
First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.