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The Accidental Spark: Gunpowder's Journey

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Ancient China

The Accidental Spark: Gunpowder's Journey

From Elixirs of Immortality to Explosive Power

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Bharat

2013
An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.
1921
Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.

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2013
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.
2009
Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
1997
Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari (temple pictured) in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
1989
Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.
1968
NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
1950
The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.

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