Amavasya

अमावस्या

Jyeshtha KrishnaRohini NakshatraMoon in Vrishabha

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Darius and the Royal Road

How an ancient highway connected a mighty empire

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Bharat

2008
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
1963
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.

World

2012
Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
2007
Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
2001
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
2001
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
1963
The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).
1923
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.

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