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Indus Valley & Vedic Period

The Stolen Vedas

Hayagriva's Rescue — An Underwater Adventure

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2020
The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.
2002
The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
1997
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.
1992
The largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain was found in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk.
1981
About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
1973
U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.

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