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Mahajanapadas & Buddhism

Mahavira: The Great Hero's Path

The life and teachings of the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism

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2019
An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
1990
In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
1983
Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
1983
Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving "subversive" material on the gravestone.
1969
In response to months of nationwide student protests, thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo.
1958
Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.

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