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Sultanate & Mughal Period

Razia Sultan: India's Fearless Queen

The remarkable story of Delhi's first and only female ruler

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2017
A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashed into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, killing all 122 people on board.
1998
White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764 (pictured) crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Zanderij, killing 178 people, including members of the football team known as the Colourful 11.
1981
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
1975
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
1969
In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.

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