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#OnThisDayInHistory is a page dedicated to acknowledge historical events that took place on this very day.

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Three days of Russian advancement. One can clearly see in Day 3 that the Ukrainian forces have regained a significant portion of the lost Territories. Today would be crucial. #RussiaUkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineWar #russianinvasion

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#OnThisDay, 31 May, 1911, The RMS #Titanic was launched in Belfast. It was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service. She was built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in #Belfast. Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster.

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#OnThisDay, 17 May, 1498, #VascoDeGama, #Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He was the first Western traveler from #Europe to reach #India by sea.

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#OnThisDay, 15 May, 1948, following the expiration of The #British Mandate for #Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade #Israel thus starting the 1948 #Arab_Israeli War.

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On this day, 11 May, 912, Alexander II becomes Emperor of the #Byzantine Empire. He was the 3rd son of Emperor Basil I and Eudokia Ingerina. He was the first Byzantine Emperor to use the term "autocrator" on coinage to celebrate the ending of his thirty-three years as Co-Emperor.

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#Saladin is the Latin corruption of the great Sultan Salah-al-Din.
His full name is Salah-al-Din Abu'l Muzaffar Yusuf ibn Ayyub al-Tikriti al-Kurdi i.e. The king who aids; righteousness of the faith; father of the victorious; Joseph; son of Job; of Tikrit; the Kurd.

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#OnThisDay, 1 Feb, 1865, President #AbrahamLincoln signs the #ThirteenthAmendment to the United States Constitution which formally abolished #slavery in the #UnitedStates. It passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865.

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#OnThisDay, 30 January, 1948
#MahatmaGandhi ,#FatherOfNation of India, was assassinated by #NathuramGodse.
It is also known as the first terrorism act of Independent India.

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#OnThisDay, 14 January, 1761, The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.

In the painting, Ahmad Shah Abdali is shown sitting on a brown horse.

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#OnThisDay, 13 January, 1554, #Bayinnaung was crowned the king of #Burma.
He was the king of the #Toungoo Dynasty who assembled the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia which included much of modern-day Burma, the Chinese Shan states, Lan Na, Lan Xang, Manipur & Siam.

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#OnThisDay, 11 January, in the year 630, Conquest of Mecca took place. The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city after Quraysh surrender.

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Christmas Truce.
#British and #German troops meeting in no man's land on Christmas Eve of 1914 during the unofficial truce.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov, in 1698, East India Company purchased #Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.

Pictures: Fort William of the Kingdom of Bengal of EIC Col. – Engraving by Jan Van Ryne. 1754.

Courtesy: British Library

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#OnThisDay, 24 June, 1901 #PabloPicasso opens his first exhibition in Ambroise Vollard's gallery in Paris.Neither of the 2 art critics that visited the show thought much about the works. Picasso went on to become one of the best artists of all time.

Pic: The Weeping Woman(1937)

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#OnThisDay, 23 June, 1661, Princess #Catherine of Portugal wed King of England #Charles II. Portugal gave island of #Bombay to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.

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#OnThisDay, 14 June, 1807, Emperor #Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the #Russian Army at the Battle of #Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

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#OnThisDay, 12 June, 1929, 90 years ago, famous German-Dutch diarist and victim of the Holocaust, #AnneFrank was born.

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

-Anne Frank

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A feigned retreat is a military tactic whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability.(2/2)

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#OnThisDay, 12 June, 910, the Battle of Augsburg took place. The Hungarians defeated the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.(1/2)

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#OnThisDay, 5 May, 1821, 198 years ago, #Napoleon Bonaparte died as a British prisoner on the island of St. Helena. Napoleon had risen from obscurity to become the greatest military genius of #Europe. He marched half a million men a million miles to conquer an entire continent.