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1941 - President Franklin D Roosevelt appointed General Douglas MacArthur as Commander of U.S Forces in the Far East.
1945 - Britain, China and the United States issued the Potsdam Declaration thr
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1909 - Frenchman Louis Bleriot made the first crossing of the English Channel by air, flying his monoplane from Les Baraques, near Calais, to Dover.
1934 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss w
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1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne was signed between Turkey and the allied powers. Turkey gave up all claims to non-Turkish territories lost in World War One.
1936 - Britain's "Talking Clock&
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1948 - D. W. Griffith, American director of the silent film epics "Birth of a Nation", and "Intolerance", died.
1951 - Marshal Philippe Petain died in prison. French hero for h
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1917 - Alexander Kerensky became prime minister of Russia, taking over from Prince Lvov.
1934 - John Dillinger, famed U.S. bank robber, was shot dead by FBI agents outside Chicago's Biograph T
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Sometimes, death speaks stronger than our lives, our conversations and everyday languages. The death of the six cadres of the Naga army in Arunachal Pradesh on July 11, 2020 affec
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1904 - After 13 years of construction, the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok was completed.
1944 - U.S. forces liberated the Pacific island of Guam, held by the Japanese since Dece
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 21
1773: Pope Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit order.
1798: Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Arab Mameluke warriors at the
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1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, died.
1944 - German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb under a tab
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1947 - Burma's effective prime minister and independence leader U Aung San was assassinated along with six other ministers.
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first president of South Korea, died.
1980 -
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1936 - The Spanish Civil War began with a revolt at Melilla in what was then Spanish Morocco.
1969 - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's car went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts
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1903 - The American-born artist James Whistler, best known for the portrait of his mother, died.
1945 - The post-World War Two Potsdam Conference began, bringing together British Prime Minister Wi
Nukhosa Chüzho
Kohima
Voice of the young
“...spoke of their problems with the Burmese Army; of beatings, rapes, and boys pressed into service as porters. Conditions in th
Chongboi Singson
Kohima
Who would have thought these dark days would dawn upon us? We had hoped that we would find a cure and our lives would return to how it used to be at the earliest. But sadly
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1935 - The world's first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
1969 - Apollo 11 took off on its historic mission to land men on the m
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Counselor, Immanuel College Dimapur
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Ghunavi G Kinnimi Sumi
Guwahati
The services of government servants are governed by the Government Services Rules. Government machineries must function within the ambit of guidelines, rules and ac
Angamimiapfü Mechü Krotho
Kohima
Reflections on the spread of the Corona Virus within Kohima
COVID-19 cases are rising steadily with no deaths reported. There has be
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Dimapur
Of late, several opinions has been shared in the media appreciating for implementation of Even/Odd numbers of vehicles running in Dimapur jurisdiction to ease the traffic congestio
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1904 - Paul Kruger, South African politician, died in exile in Switzerland. He led the Transvaal during the 1899-1902 Boer War against Britain, which was seeking to extend its commercial interests af