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Swapnil Kusale, son of a village school teacher from Kambalwadi, Kolhapur district, wins India's 3rd Olympic Medal, a Bronze in 50 m Rifle 3 Positions. Also becomes the first Indian to win an Olympic medal in that category.
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Jude Law has been one of my favorite actors, with some memorable roles in his career. These are some of my favorite roles of his, what would be yours?
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Actors with the best diction and dialogue delivery in Hindi cinema. You can actually listen to them reading out a grocery list or a phone book.
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Hannibal routs the much larger Roman Army at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, regarded as one of the greatest tactical victories in military history, and one of the worst defeats ever for the Romans. He had earlier defeated them at Trebia and Lake Trasimene.
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Octavian enters Alexandria in 30 BC after defeating Mark Antony, and making Egypt a part of the Roman Empire. Antony would commit suicide while Cleopatra would later on August 12.
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700 Jewish prisoners launch an uprising at Treblinka, one of the most notorious concentration camps in 1943. Lasting for 30 minutes, they set several buildings ablaze, exploded a petrol tank, while one group attacked the main gate. Around 200 managed to escape.
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Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein write a letter to F.D. Roosevelt in 1939, stating that Germany might develop atomic bombs, and the US should start it's own nuclear program. This would eventually lead to the Manhattan Project.
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The Battle of Nile(Aboukir Bay) begins in 1798 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, with the British led by Horatio Nelson, routing the French fleet, which lost 9 ships, and around 5000 killed. And it made the British dominant in the Mediterranean, ending a 3 month naval campaign.
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