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Guru Arjan Dev: The Compiler and the Martyr

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Sultanate & Mughal Period

Guru Arjan Dev: The Compiler and the Martyr

The Fifth Sikh Guru's legacy of scripture and sacrifice

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World

2013
A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
2007
Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
2007
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 crashed after attempting a poorly executed go-around while landing in Thailand, killing 90 of the 130 people on board.
1992
The British pound (coin pictured) was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday and suffered a major devaluation.
1989
During a tour of the United States, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin visited a grocery store in Texas that had a major impact on his views regarding the Soviet Union's economic system.
1982
A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.

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