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On This Day in History |
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1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. |
 | Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory Myasoyedov |
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1861 Tsar Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them the full rights of free citizens [OS=Feb 19]. |
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller. |
1917 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) [OS=Feb 18]. |
1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Mumbai (Bombay) to protest against autocratic rule in India |
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy. |
 | Damage in Los Angeles after the 1992 riots, which killed 63 people and caused over $1 billion in damages |
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1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted |
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Carmen, the opera about a sensuous woman who seduces a soldier, had its premiere on this day and dismissed as a flop. Today, it is performed all over the world. |
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