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#TodayinHistory in 1869, the Suez Canal opened, enabling #PH to have faster exchange of info & gain direct economic relations w/ Spain w/c used to be via Mexico. It shortened
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#TodayInHistory Jimmy Carter signs a directive authorizing CIA to spend just over 500,000, on aid to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Titled Operation Cyclone, this act would eventually lead to the
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Kristoffer Pasion
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#TodayinHistory in 1901, U.S. military gov-gen of #PH, Arthur MacArthur, father of Douglas MacArthur, ordered the exile of captured leaders of the 1st #PH Republic who refused to swear allegiance
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#TodayInHistory Battle of Vasai begins in 1739, as the Marathas under Chimaji Appa, the younger brother of Baji Rao, launch their siege of the Portuguese held fort on the West
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#TodayInHistory Intel was founded on this date in 1968 by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, both from Fairchild Semiconductors and later joined by Andy Grove, who would become one of
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#TodayinHistory Shivaji Maharaj routs the Mughals under Kartalab Khan at the Battle of Umberkhind in 1661, in a narrow mountain pass, one of his major victories that would consolidate his
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#TodayInHistory Udham Singh is hanged to death in 1940 at Peytonville Prison, London for the assasination of Gen O Dwyer, in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. One of the
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#TodayInHistory Masterda Surya Sen is brutally tortured and executed by the British in 1934. The hero behind the Chittagong armory raid, that shook the British like never before. A truly
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#TodayInHistory The Naval Ratings Mutiny begins in 1946, as Indian naval officers, sailors revolt against the British, in one of the biggest challenges ever they faced. A forgotten mutiny that
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#TodayInHistory Sadashiv Rao Bhau, commander of the Maratha army at Panipat dies like a true warrior on the battlefield in 1761, fighting till the end. A true hero who has
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#TodayInHistory The epic battle of #RezangLa during the 1962 War, when 114 Ahir soldiers of 13 Kumaon led by Major Shaitan Singh Bhatti, put up one of history's greatest last
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#TodayInHistory Jatindranath Mukherjee passes away in 1915 in Balasore, after being shot in a police encounter the day before. Better known to us as Bagha Jatin, one of the greatest
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#TodayInHistory Operation Polo begins in 1948, the military action or rather "police action" which ensured Hyderabad would not end up as another Kashmir. This thread takes a look at the
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#TodayInHistory Swami Shraddhanand is shot dead by a Muslim fanatic Abdul Rashid in Delhi in 1926. One of the great leaders of modern India, who awoke the Indian consciousness and
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#TodayInHistory Madan Lal Dhingra is hanged to death at Pentonville Prison, London for the assasination of Curzon Wylie. A close associate of Veer Savarkar, another great revolutionary who never really
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