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India's Giant Leap to Mars

How India's Mangalyaan reached the Red Planet on its very first attempt!

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On this calendar date

Bharat

1921
Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in Madras, India, began a four-month strike.

World

2019
Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
2009
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
1994
A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured.
1982
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.
1979
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
1975
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.

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