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1846: Congress declares war on its neighboring country amid tensions between the US and Mexico over Texas for the past year.
1905: Birth of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, former President of India.
1952 : First session of Parliament in independent India convened.
1960: A Swiss expedition team led by Max Isselin reached the summit of Dhaulagiri mountain in the Himalayas.
1962: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan became the second President of the country.
1981: Pope John Paul II is shot by a Turkish citizen in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Pope was seriously injured in this attack.
1995: A British woman, the mother of two children, accomplished the feat of conquering Everest without the help of Sherpas and oxygen.
1998: Irrespective of the criticism and pressure from around the world, India conducted two more nuclear tests.
2001: One of the biggest names in the Indian literary world, R. Of. Narayan passed away.
2009: The European Commission fines computer chip maker Intel, the largest in history, of more than one billion euros for adopting unfair business policies toward rival companies.