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Samudra Manthan

Samudra Manthan — The Battle for Immortality

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Bharat

2001
India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.

World

2014
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.
2007
In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
1963
In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
1948
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
1947
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
1945
Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.

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