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Mark the plane crash in Islamabad in history for today also :(
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Today is 21st, right?
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Aaho ji aaj 21 hai. Death Anniversary of Allama Iqbal.
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21st April 1989 : 100,000 students gather at Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu Yaobang the deposed reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party and voice their discontent with China's authoritative communist government. This was the beginning of the mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing prior to the Chinese Government declaring martial law in May of the same year which led to the June Massacres by Chinese troops killing hundreds of demonstrators and arresting thousands of protesters and other suspected dissidents
21st April 1987 : Tamil Tigers plant a massive bomb in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo killing more than 100 and injuring a further 300.
21st April 1930 : A fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320 inmates, and many burn to death when they are not unlocked from their cells
21st April 1941 : German Bombers Bombed with fire and explosives on the South Coast City of Plymouth for many hours overnight causing fires throughout the city
21st April 1955 : The strike which has stopped British National Newspapers from appearing for nearly a month has ended and Fleet Street newspapers are back on the streets after the strike by maintenance men who are members of the electricians' and engineers' unions agree to a wage increase of just over £2 a week
21st April 1956 : Elvis Presley has his first number one hit with "Heartbreak Hotel" which tops of the Billboard charts
21st April 1960 : Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
21st April 1967 : A series of seventeen tornadoes strike Illinois, including several in the Chicago area including the worst a tornado which moved through Belvidere killing 24 ( including 13 at local high school ) and injuring another 450. Another tornado touched down near Palos Hills and moved across the south side of Chicago during rush hour killing 33 before going out into Lake Michigan
21st April 1992 : Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teenage boys
April 21,1963 : The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors adopts code of Press Ethics
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24th April 1990 : The Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. It is hoped that the Telescope will be able to see up to the edge of the known universe. Although Hubble had some problems in the beginning with the original mirror design after repairs consisting of a series of corrective mirrors which are carried out in space, Hubble has sent back a series of stunning photographs of deep space, and revolutionized thinking about the universe.
24th April 1898 : Spain declares war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
24th April 1936 : Benny Goodman and his trio recorded "China Boy." Benny Goodman was one of the most prominent jazz and big band musicians of his day, often being referred to as the "King of Swing," "The Professor" and "Swing's Senior Statesman."
24th April 1984 : Apple released the Apple IIc portable computer costing $1,295,
24th April 1993 : A massive bomb in a parked Van in Bishopsgate in the heart of the City of London explodes, killing one and injuring more than 40. The Police believe that the bomb was planted by the IRA, although the IRA has not said it carried out the attack.
24th April 2008 : Wesley Snipes has been sentenced in Florida on tax evasion charges. A jury had found him guilty in February, and he has been awarded thirty-six months in federal prison. Snipes's lawyers had called for leniency, arguing that the offences were misdemeanors and that the star was of good character. But prosecutors said an example should be set because of Snipes's fame. The jury had found Snipes guilty of deliberately failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001, but cleared him of the more serious fraud and conspiracy charges.
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Today is 25th or 26th? 
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Its 26th in Pakistan now. You are still in 25th. Backward countries 
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Jaldi ka kaam shaitan ka 
Oky i’ll wait till it be 26th 
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I'm not sure but many pplz doesn't like her due to her character.
And what exactly was wrong with her character?
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19th May 1997 : The first victim of Avian Flu A(H5N1) a three-year-old boy has died in Hong Kong.
19th May 1962 : Marilyn Monroe performed a rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy for his forty-fifth birthday during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden
19th May 1982 : Actress Sophia Loren began serving a 30-day prison sentence in Italy for failing to report five million lire on her income tax return for 1970
19th May 1994 : The former First Lady ( President Kennedy's wife ) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died today of lymphoma at the age of 64
19th May 2005 : The final chapter of Star Wars "Revenge of the Sith," opens in movie theaters with movie goers queuing all night
19th May, 2008 : A drunken man opened fire in Calamba, Philippines, and killed eight people, five of them children, while injuring another six people with an M-16 rifle
19th May, 2009 : A stork who had probably damaged its beak by flying into a wall was given an artificial beak to repair the damage by specialists at the Hortobagy Birds' Hospital in Hungary. The doctors repaired the bottom beak in a surgery and created a top beak out of resin to replace the other damaged portion
19th may,1940:Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari was born.
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Today in the History: I wasn't born on this date :D j/k
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But ninja was born today. Happy Birthday ninja :)
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hehehe sont tell me ninja birthday has to be included in history 
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ninja is a historical personality. so this should be written in golden words of GS History :)
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20th May 1961 : An angry mob consisting of all white's attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" ( Freedom Riders were testing the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, that gave them a legal right to disregard local segregation ordinances regarding interstate transportation facilities. ) in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.
20th May 1927 : Britain recognizes the independence of Saudi Arabia
20th May 1936 : The US Treasury has announced the largest bond issue in history for June 15th of 1 Billion Dollars , this is in addition treasury floating $100,000,000 of treasury bills issued each week. The bonds will help pay for the large scale public works putting millions of Americans back to work
20th May 1942 : "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo" was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The song made it to the top spot on the music charts for seven weeks, only being knocked off by Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
20th May 1944 : A group of officers from the German Army attempt an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by exploding a bomb in his headquarters during a staffing meeting
20th May 1956 : The first hydrogen bomb dropped from an aircraft is exploded by America over Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.
**20th May 1965 : A Pakistan Airways Boeing 707 crashes upon landing Cairo Airport, Egypt, killing 124 people.
**20th May 1994 : After a 20 year struggle East Timor gains Independence From Philippines .
20th May, 2009 : The American actor who had provided the voice of Mickey Mouse died at the age of sixty-two of complications from diabetes. Wayne Allwine became the voice of Mickey Mouse in 1977 and was married to the actress who voiced Minnie Mouse
20th May, 2010 : Five masterpiece paintings were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France. The paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Leger, and Modigilani were estimated to be worth over $100 million and were all from the early 20th century. The theft was believed to be the biggest since a theft of several masterpieces in 1990 at the Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
20th May, 2011 : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit north-west Turkey leaving at least two dead and injuring seventy-nine people. The earthquake hit the town of Simav in the middle of the night and many residents fled into the streets and were told to stay in their cars for the evening because their homes may not be safe.
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Whats the story of East Timur? Was that a part of Indonesia? Used to heard about this in news 10-15 years ago.
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East Timor](http://www.paklinks.com/wiki/East_Timor) is a small country in Southeast Asia, officially known as Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
The Portuguese began to trade with Timor by the early 16th century and colonized it throughout the mid-century. Skirmishing with the Dutch in the region eventually resulted in an 1859 treaty for which Portugal ceded the western half of the island. Imperial Japan occupied East Timor from 1942 to 1945, but Portugal resumed colonial authority after the Japanese surrender of World War II.
East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975, but was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. It was later incorporated into Indonesia as the province of East Timor in July 1976.
On 30 August 1999, in a UN-sponsored referendum, an overwhelming majority of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia. Immediately following the referendum, anti-independence Timorese militias — organised and supported by the Indonesian military — commenced a punitive scorched-earth campaign. The militias killed approximately 1,400 Timorese and forcibly pushed 300,000 people into West Timor as refugees. The majority of the country’s infrastructure was destroyed during this punitive attack. On 20 September 1999, the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) was deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. Following a United Nations-administered transition period, East Timor was internationally recognised as an independent nation on 20 May 2002.
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Whats the religion of majority in East Timur? Is it a Muslim majority country?
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The majority of the population of East Timor is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is the dominant religious institution.[SUP][1]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-report-0)[/SUP] There are also small Protestant and Muslim communities
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So that says all about the active involvement of UN for freedom of East Timur from Indonesia :)