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The Day the Garden Wept: Jallianwala Bagh

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Colonial & Freedom Struggle

The Day the Garden Wept: Jallianwala Bagh

A horrific event that ignited India's fight for freedom.

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2012
Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.
2000
Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
1988
The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.
1959
Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.
1943
The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1922
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.

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