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1856
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
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|  1906
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born in the village of Bhaora in Madhya Pradesh. |
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 1927
Radio broadcasting in India began when the Indian Broadcasting Company, IBC, inaugurated its first radio station 7BY in Bombay.
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| | 1976
Judit Polgár, a Hungarian chess grandmaster who is the only woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list, was born in Budapest. |
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| | 1983
The Sri Lankan Civil War began with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group. |
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| | 1995
Comet Hale–Bopp was discovered by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. |
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Mehmood (b.1932), one of Bollywood’s most successful comedians and father of singer, Lucky Ali, died. |
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In the deadliest act of terrorism in Egypt, a series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing 88 people. |
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