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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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On This Day
10 events2016
The first victims of a mass methanol poisoning which eventually killed over 70 inhabitants of Irkutsk, Russia, began arriving at hospitals.
2010
Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian revolution.
1990
American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu.
1983
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.
1970
Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.
1967
Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.
1951
The Civil Rights Congress presented a document to the United Nations Genocide Convention charging the United States government with genocide against African Americans.
1948
The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
1945
The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.
1944
Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.