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Indus Valley & Vedic Period

Lothal: Gateway to the Ancient World

How a Harappan Port Connected Continents 4400 Years Ago

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On this calendar date

Bharat

1969
Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal (commemorative stamp pictured).
1942
World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
1941
World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
1824
Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India Company.

World

2013
A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
2010
The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
2005
Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha.
2002
The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
1991
Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
1985
The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.

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