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पंडित राम प्रसाद 'बिस्मिल' भारतीय स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन की क्रान्तिकारी धारा के एक प्रमुख सेनानी थे, जिन्हें 30 वर्ष की आयु …
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लोनार झील महाराष्ट्र के बुलढाणा जिले में स्थित एक खारे पानी की झील है। इसका निर्माण एक उल्का पिंड के पृथ्वी से टकराने के…
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On This Day
10 events2012
Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
2011
The semi-professional English football club Gedling Town F.C. withdrew from league football, shortly before its dissolution.
2008
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
2007
Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
2001
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
2001
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
1963
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
1963
The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).
1962
American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
1923
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.