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Samudra Manthan

Samudra Manthan — The Battle for Immortality

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Bharat

2006
India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

World

2017
A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.
2013
Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2009
The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions were also eligible to receive government identity documents.
1991
The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later by Coalition forces.
1967
The Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1944
World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.

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