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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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On this calendar date

Bharat

2007
Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.
1999
About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.

World

2013
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
2012
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
1998
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
1991
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
1986
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
1966
Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.

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