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Sultanate & Mughal Period

Razia Sultan: India's Fearless Queen

The remarkable story of Delhi's first and only female ruler

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2008
Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for the most gold medals won by an athlete at a single games.
1959
American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz recordings of all time.
1950
Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.
1945
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.
1945
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed, igniting a revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1943
World War II: The Royal Air Force began a strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany's V-weapon programme by attacking the Peenemünde Army Research Center.

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