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#TodayInHistory The Arabs under Amr ibn al-As of the Rashidun Caliphate, win a decisive battle at Heliopolis( now Ayn Shams near Cairo) in 640 CE, against the Byzantines, that launched

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#TodayInHistory Sidney Poitier becomes the first black Actor to win an Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1964. One of the finest actors ever, a legend in his own

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#TodayInHistory Hiroshima is devastated by the atomic bomb Little Man in 1945. 140,000 killed, the plight of those who survived was even worse, many suffering from the radioactive fallout. This

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#TodayInHistory The 3rd defenestration of Prague, when Bohemian Protestants threw the Catholic representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II in 1618, begins the 30 years War in Europe, one

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#TodayinHistory in 1870, Felipe Salvador (Ápûng Ipê), Filipino revolutionary leader & head of the millenarian society, Santa Isabel, is born in Baliuag, Bulacan #PH. Today is his 150th birth anniversary.

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#TodayinHistory in 1849, Spanish Gov-Gen Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa decreed that all #PH inhabitants "shall choose or be assigned" one of the surnames compiled in his "Catalogo alfabetico de apellidos."

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#TodayInHistory The polio vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk is declared to be safe in 1952, and he would later make it freely available to the public on May 1,

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#TodayinHistory in 1950, 70 years ago, the 10th Battalion Combat Team (BCT), the 1st of the 5 #PH contingents that formed the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (#PEFTOK), landed in

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#TodayInHistory Pakistan launches Operation Grand Slam in 1965, to seize the vital Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, which in a way would begin the '65 War. However this attempt

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#TodayInHistory 21 Sikhs face off a huge Afghan army at the epic Battle of Saragarhi in 1897, that would go down as one of the great last man stands in

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#TodayInHistory The first Indian immigrants to Trinidad and Tobago arrive in 1845, on the Fatel Razack, creating the Indian diaspora there. Most of them laborers bought to work on the

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#TodayinHistory Operation Shakti, when the India Govt under AB Vajpayee, conducts 5 nuclear explosions in 1998 at Pokhran over two days, the second such, after Operation Smiling Buddha in 1974.

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#TodayInHistory #Pokhran2, India conducted series of 5 nuclear explosions in 1998, the 2nd nuclear test after Smiling Buddha in 1974. Operation Shakti was carried out with 1 fusion bomb and

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#TodayInHistory The 1965 India Pakistan War, begins when Indian forces cross the border, as a response to Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam. As part of my series on the War, today

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#TodayInHistory Chattrapathi Sambhaji, the son of Shivaji, is murdered by Aurangzeb in 1689 after being tortured in the most brutal manner, for his refusal to convert to Islam. A hero

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#TodayInHistory Alluri Sitarama Raju is shot dead by the British in 1924, at Koyyuru. One of the greatest revolutionaries, who led a long tribal uprising against the British in the