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Shimla, Jan 2011California became the first state to celebrate Fred Korematsu Day, which honoured the Japanese American activist who was convicted in 1942 of violating...
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Shimla, Nov 7. Keekli Bureau2016American Attorney and public official Janet Reno, who was the first female attorney general (1993–2001) of the United States, died...
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Shimla, Nov.5 Keekli Bureau2013India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned.1998The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing...
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Shimla, Oct. 23 Keekli Bureau2003Soong Mei-ling, the second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek and a powerful political figure in her own...
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Shimla Oct. 21 Keekli Bureau2018American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Veep, was officially awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark...
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Shimla, Oct. 20 Keekli Bureau2014Dominican-born American fashion designer Oscar de la Renta—whose work, blending European luxury with American ease, helped define standards of elegant...