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1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory
1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 - Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
1968 - The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 - A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 - 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.
216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

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26 JanuaryRepublic Day (गणतंत्र दिवस, Republic Day)
30 MarchEnd of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)
18 AprilGood Friday (अच्छा शुक्रवार)
5 JulyDay of Ashura (Ashura)
2 AugustDiwali (Dipawali dewanagari दीपावली)
2 AugustVesākha (Vesak, Buddha Purnima, बैसाख)
2 AugustHoli (dewanagari होली trl. holī, bengali হোলি )
15 AugustIndependence Day (स्वतंत्रता दिवस, Independence Day)
2 OctoberMahatma Gandhi's Birthday (Gandhi Jayanti)
25 DecemberChristmas (क्रिसमस)
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Republic of India
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Republic of India - FlagRepublic of India - Coat of arms
Republic of India - Location
Capital: New Delhi
Official languages: English (statewide), Hindi (Central Government and ten states), Sanskrit (statewide)
Government: Republic
Currency: Indian Rupee (INR)
Population: 1 147 996 000
Area: 3 287 590 km²
Religion: Hinduism (81,1%), Islam (12%), Christianity (2,3%)
Time Zone: UTC +5:30
Auto Code: IND
Internet TLD: .in
Calling code: +91
Corporate Income Tax: 45,00%
Personal Income Tax: 0-33%
Value Added Tax: 12,50%
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