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On this day: Maratha Empire

Sultanate & Mughal Period

Chhatrapati Shivaji: The Lion King

The Great Maratha Warrior King

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Bharat

1803
Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

World

2019
The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.
2016
Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany.
2010
Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.
2008
A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide.
2002
The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.
1997
Irish rock band U2 performed in Sarajevo (pictured), the first major artist to hold a concert in the city since the end of the Bosnian War.

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