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  • Growing calls to scrap 'racist' names for Australian landmarks
    Georgina Hewson Thomson Reuters Foundation Like many indigenous Australians, Pat Dudgeon grew up in the shadow of a mountain range that made her feel inferior and "conquered" on her own traditiona
  • Today in History: August 03
    Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 3: 1914 - Germany declared war on France at the start of World War One. 1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus died of a heart at
  • Today in History July 31
    Reuters 1910 - British murderer Dr Hawley Crippen was arrested on a ship off Canada. Although disguised, the Captain recognised him and radioed Scotland Yard. This was the first arrest effected by radio.
  • Today in History July 30
    Reuters 1912 - Japanese Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by Yoshihito. During Meiji's reign Japan was transformed into one of the modern world's great powers. 1916 - Black Tom explosion in New
  • Naknyulum – Killing the darkness of COVID-19
    E Kire ‘Next week is Naknyulum. This is so apt a time, where besides the never-ending Naga issue, we are embroiled in darkness due to corruption and the uncertainty of COVID-19. The Naknyulum festival
  • Today in History July 29
    Reuters 1900 - Italy's King Umberto I was assassinated at Monza by anarchist Gaetano Bresci. 1937 - Coronation of King Farouk in Cairo, Egypt. 1948 - The first Olympic Games after World War Two ope
  • ‘Working on the Frontline to End Human Trafficking’
    World Day Against Trafficking In Persons- July 30 “We only have two choices- do something or do nothing” - Tony Kirwan Every year on 30th July, the world unites to observe World Day Against Tr
  • Today in History July 28
    Reuters 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia after the June 28 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. This led to further declarations of war, precipitating World War One. 1945 -
  • Today in History July 27
    Reuters 1921 - Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insulin for the first time. It proved an effective treatment for diabetes. 1924 - Olympic Games conclude in Paris. 1949 - The Br
  • Argentina counts on new satellite  technology to guard forests day and night
    Marcela Valente Thomson Reuters Foundation Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology in the coming days, to monitor felling of its native forests round the clock and accura
  • Today in History July 26
    Reuters 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
  • Today in History July 25
    Reuters 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
  • Today in History July 24
    Reuters 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&
  • Today in History July 23
    Reuters 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
  • Today in History July 22
    Reuters 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
  • They died so that our land may heal
    Tungshang Ningreichon  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
  • Today in History July 21
    Reuters 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
  • TODAY in HISTORY: July 21
    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
  • Today in History July 20
    Reuters 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
  • Today in History July 19
    Reuters 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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