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African Kingdoms

Great Zimbabwe: The Stone City

A magnificent African empire built without mortar

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On this calendar date

Bharat

1945
Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
1897
The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda to serve as the humanitarian counterpart to the Hindu monastic order Ramakrishna Math.

World

2016
The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
2010
Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode.
2002
The Horncastle boar's head (pictured), which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.
1991
In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.
1974
Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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