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  • Today in History: August 29
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 29   Reuters 1916 - General Paul von Hindenburg became German chief of staff during World War One.   1995 - Georgian
  • The thin line between natives and migrants
    Khrietuonyü Noudi Migration is a worldwide phenomenon and this fact has always put the minority people in grave disadvantages when their territories are intruded by massive migrating population from all qua
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 28
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 28   Reuters 1916 - General Paul von Hindenburg became German chief of staff during World War One.   1995 - Georgian
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 27
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 27   Reuters 1919 - Louis Botha, Boer general, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, died aged 56. &
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 26
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 26     Reuters 1920 - American women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.  
  • The Amazon is on fire – here are 5 things you need to know
    Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin. (Guaira Maia/ISA)     Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney Record fires are raging in Brazil’s Amazon
  • Today in History
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug 23 Reuters 1926 - The Italian-born American film actor Rudolph Valentino died aged 31. Idolised by women as the first "Latin lover" of the
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 22
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 22   Reuters 1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.   1922 - Irish politician and Sinn
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 22
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 21   Reuters 1911 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian waiter, Vice
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 20
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 20   Reuters 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, was fatally wounded by a Spanish Communist with an ice axe in Mexico Ci
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 19
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 19     Reuters 1929 - The Russian ballet impresario and director Sergei Diaghilev died. His Ballets Russes produced su
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 15
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 15   Reuters 1914 - The Panama Canal opened with the passage of the vessel Ancon, although it was not formally inaugurated until
  • Mãori women lead the battle for indigenous rights
    Charlotte Greenfield and Praveen Menon Reuters  Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 14
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 14   Reuters 1910 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, died.   1912 - Jules Massenet, French compo
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 13
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 13   Reuters 1910 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, died.   1912 - Jules Massenet, French com
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 12
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 12     Reuters 1922 - Arthur Griffith, first president of the Irish Republic and a founder of Sinn Fein, died. &nbs
  • TODAY IN HISTORY
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug 09 Reuters 1919 - The Italian composer and librettist Ruggiero Leoncavallo, famed for his opera "Pagliacci", died aged 62.   194
  • TODAY in HISTORY: August 08
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 08   Reuters 1900 - The first Davis Cup tennis competition began at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, and w
  • Cultivating Burning Desire
    Md. Tabrej, Asst Prof, Dept of BBA St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Jakhama Once when Steve Jobs (Founder of Apple and Pixar) was asked during an interview, how he managed to reach the top as a succ
  • TODAY in HISTORY: AUGUST 07
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 07 Reuters 1942 - The first U.S. land offensive of World War Two in the Pacific started in the Southern Solomon Islands, on Guadalcanal.