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2023-04-15

2023-04-15

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Atiq Ahmed
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Atiq Ahmed

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Atiq Ahmed or Atique Ahmed was a notorious Indian gangster turned Politician and history-sheeter. He served as a member of the Indian Parliament and the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Samajwadi Party. Ahmed had more than 160 criminal cases registered against him and contested several elections while being …

Boston Marathon bombing
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Boston Marathon bombing
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The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist atta…

Cleopatra
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Cleopatra
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom from 51 to 30 BC and the last active pharaoh of ancient…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
Notre-Dame_fire
A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.
2013
Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
1994
General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade
At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 123 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
1989
Hillsborough_disaster
The Hillsborough disaster (memorial pictured), a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.
1958
Walter_O'Malley
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.
1957
Victoria_Coach_Station
The Indiaman departed Victoria Coach Station, London, as part of the first UK–India bus service.
1952
Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.
1947
Jackie_Robinson
Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
1936
1936_Tulkarm_shooting
Two Jews were killed near Tulkarm in Mandatory Palestine, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the Arab revolt.
1927
Mississippi_River
Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.

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