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the German occupying forces massacred 335 Italian prisoners at the Ardeatine caves. The site of the massacre has become a memorial in Italy.
In 1980, the Soviet Union which then ruled his birthplace Bukhara, celebrated the millennium of Avicenna’s birth by circulating various commemorative stamps with artistic illustrations.
On March 5, 1959, twenty-one African American boys burned to death inside a dormitory at an Arkansas reform school in Wrightsville
“He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I have crushed him.” These are the words of Udham Singh, referring to Michael O’Dwyer, the culprit of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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Kamaljeet Sandhu, the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games gold, blazed the track in Bangkok in 1970. Learn about her 400m victory, Olympic journey, and life beyond athletics.
City: Quds. Location: Al Aqsa Mosque, Date: Friday, 21 May 1972. My late journalist friend Said Terzioğlu and I are wandering through the sacred sites with the help of our guide. It was at the top of the steps in the second courtyard of the sacred mosque. He had a height close to two meters… He had some aging clothes upon his aging body… standing bold upright. I looked at his face and was scared. It was like someone had overturned some barren soil. He had many scars on his face.
The abolishment of the Office of the Caliph on March 3rd, 1924 is marked as a turning point in history. To fully appreciate the significance of this anniversary, we must take ourselves back to Istanbul.
Hattie McDaniel was an African American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. She was the first African American to win an Oscar.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
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CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.