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Kartika ShuklaUttara Ashadha NakshatraMoon in Makara

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Mahajanapadas & Buddhism

Alexander the Great's Adventure

A Journey of Courage and Discovery

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2022
At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
2010
Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
2001
Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
1950
The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War.
1944
Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
1944
USS Tang, the U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any other American submarine, sank when it was struck by its own torpedo.

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