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The Day the Garden Wept: Jallianwala Bagh

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Colonial & Freedom Struggle

The Day the Garden Wept: Jallianwala Bagh

A horrific event that ignited India's fight for freedom.

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2021
Six people, including the perpetrator, were killed in a mass shooting in Plymouth, England.
2016
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
2000
Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people.
1990
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).
1985
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Japan, killing 520 of 524 people on board, including singer Kyu Sakamoto, in the world's deadliest single-aircraft aviation disaster.
1969
The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.

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