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The Wheel: Mesopotamia's Gift to the World

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The Wheel: Mesopotamia's Gift to the World

From spinning clay to rolling carts, a simple invention changed everything.

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Bharat

2002
During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
1928
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1893
USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.

World

2026
The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior officials.
2021
Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.
2013
Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
2001
A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.
1997
GRB 970228, a highly luminous 80-second flash of gamma rays, was detected on Earth, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1997
Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.

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