As I read about the beheading and terrorist sponsored deaths in France, my mind goes to that Night of Terror in the city twelve years ago, when I was just a few feet away as hundreds died! The Press Club in Mum
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 03
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1926 - Annie Oakley, the noted U.S. markswoman who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, died.
1935 - A plebisci
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1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1950 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw dies.
1995 - Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the extradition to Italy of former SS captain Eri
Suddenly many Americans are scared. “Trump won’t leave the White House!” they say, “even if he loses!” It doesn’t help that visitors standing outside the monumental presidential home in Washington i
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The pandemic brought with it a new normal that came with its own consequences. The social distancing, erratic work hours, and the stress of living in times of an outbreak
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1894 - Death of Russian Emperor Alexander III.
1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages, opens.
1995 - South Africans voted in their
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1918 - In Hungary, former prime minister Count Istvan Tisza was assassinated by disaffected soldiers. Tisza, who had resigned in 1917, had been held responsible by many for the plight Hungary found i
No, I’m not speaking of China or Pakistan, as I see you pondering and wondering who else it could be!Years ago, Prime Ministers like Indira Gandhi and others, when faced with domestic turmoil, would point the
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 30
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1938 - Millions of Americans panicked when the radio play of the H G Wells book "The War of the Worlds" was broadc
She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter's shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we'd partied last night. "What's up?" I asked my little one, "Why's she crying?""What kind of friends
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 29
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1923 - Turkey became a republic under its first president, Kemal Ataturk.
1998 - Astronaut John Glenn, 77, becomes oldest
And today, a story of Smiley from a play I had written years ago. Smiley was a convict imprisoned in one of those high security jails. Smiley used to look at the high walls that stood between him and the world
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 28
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1919 - The Volstead Prohibition Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It prohibited the sale of drink containing more than on
Having briefly outlined things like what is an FIR, where can it be lodged, who can lodge an FIR, what form/format should it be in, when it can be lodged and how an FIR can be lodged, there are some other basic
1922 - The Italian government resigned under increasing pressure from the fascist movement of Benito Mussolini.
1986 - Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain Me
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1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St Petersburg formed the first Soviet, or workers' assembly, in a brief uprising.
1951 - Winston Churchill was appointed British prime minister for a se
Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count? Why did God allow this to happen? Such thoughts rankled in me.A few days before the virus att
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1920 - King Alexander of Greece died from blood poisoning after being bitten by a pet monkey.
1938 - Japanese forces captured the Chinese city of Hankou.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted
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1929 - Share prices collapsed as nearly 13 million shares changed hands in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange in what became known as "Black Thursday".
1931 - The American gang
“Economy at Doorstep of Recovery, says RBI guv” the headlines in today’s paper said and immediately felt a sense of deep peace settling over me. I was startled out of my restful repose by the clanging of