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  • TODAY in HISTORY: September 04
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 04   Reuters 1914 - Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope, becoming Benedict XV.   1925 - The U.S. dirigi
  • TODAY in HISTORY: September 02
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 02     Reuters 1910 - The French painter Henri Rousseau died in Paris.   1930 - The French aviators Dieudonne Cost
  • TODAY in HISTORY: September 03
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 03   Reuters 1914 - Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope, becoming Benedict XV.   1925 - The U.S. dirigible S
  • Quick ways out of slowdown: 10 things government can do
    K Yatish Rajawat  IANS  Growth has momentum and slowdown has inertia. The Indian GDP growth has fallen to 5 per cent in the April-June quarter, from 8 per cent. This slowdown can only be rever
  • Today in History: August 29
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 29   Reuters 1916 - General Paul von Hindenburg became German chief of staff during World War One.   1995 - Georgian
  • The thin line between natives and migrants
    Khrietuonyü Noudi Migration is a worldwide phenomenon and this fact has always put the minority people in grave disadvantages when their territories are intruded by massive migrating population from all qua
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 28
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 28   Reuters 1916 - General Paul von Hindenburg became German chief of staff during World War One.   1995 - Georgian
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 27
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 27   Reuters 1919 - Louis Botha, Boer general, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, died aged 56. &
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 26
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 26     Reuters 1920 - American women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.  
  • The Amazon is on fire – here are 5 things you need to know
    Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin. (Guaira Maia/ISA)     Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney Record fires are raging in Brazil’s Amazon
  • Today in History
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug 23 Reuters 1926 - The Italian-born American film actor Rudolph Valentino died aged 31. Idolised by women as the first "Latin lover" of the
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 22
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 22   Reuters 1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.   1922 - Irish politician and Sinn
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 22
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 21   Reuters 1911 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian waiter, Vice
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 20
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 20   Reuters 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, was fatally wounded by a Spanish Communist with an ice axe in Mexico Ci
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 19
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 19     Reuters 1929 - The Russian ballet impresario and director Sergei Diaghilev died. His Ballets Russes produced su
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 15
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 15   Reuters 1914 - The Panama Canal opened with the passage of the vessel Ancon, although it was not formally inaugurated until
  • Mãori women lead the battle for indigenous rights
    Charlotte Greenfield and Praveen Menon Reuters  Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 14
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 14   Reuters 1910 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, died.   1912 - Jules Massenet, French compo
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 13
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 13   Reuters 1910 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, died.   1912 - Jules Massenet, French com
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 12
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 12     Reuters 1922 - Arthur Griffith, first president of the Irish Republic and a founder of Sinn Fein, died. &nbs
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