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Sultanate & Mughal Period

Bajirao's Lightning Strike

The Peshwa's Daring Dash to Delhi

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On this calendar date

Bharat

2013
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
1556
At the Second Battle of Panipat, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.

World

2009
U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base, killing 13.
2003
American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first-degree murder.
1995
Aline Chrétien (pictured) thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa.
1990
Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
1952
An earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering a major tsunami that affected the Kuril Islands and other parts of the Pacific Ocean.
1950
Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.

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