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Margashirsha ShuklaShatabhisha NakshatraMoon in Kumbha

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India's Moon Mission: Chandrayaan-3

A Historic Landing at the Lunar South Pole

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On this calendar date

Bharat

2012
A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.
1971
The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.
1930
German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

World

2014
A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.
1997
Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.
1997
"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
1938
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.
1922
Gabriel Narutowicz (pictured), the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.
1920
A magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck Haiyuan County, China, killing more than 250,000 people.

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