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Indus Valley & Vedic Period

Lothal: Gateway to the Ancient World

How a Harappan Port Connected Continents 4400 Years Ago

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World

2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting.
2013
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 (diagram pictured), a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
2009
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.
1978
The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
1967
More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.
1960
Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect to the Soviet Union.

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