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Shimla, Jan   2011 California became the first state to celebrate Fred Korematsu Day, which honoured the Japanese American activist who was convicted in 1942 of violating an exclusion order requiring him to relocate;...

Shimla, Nov 7. Keekli Bureau 2016 American Attorney and public official Janet Reno, who was the first female attorney general (1993–2001) of the United States, died at age 78. 2000 American politician Hillary Clinton was...

Shimla, Nov.5 Keekli Bureau 2013 India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned. 1998 The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that...

Shimla, Oct. 23 Keekli Bureau 2003 Soong Mei-ling, the second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek and a powerful political figure in her own right, died at age 106. 2001 Apple introduced the...

Shimla Oct. 21 Keekli Bureau 2018 American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Veep, was officially awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the highest...

Shimla, Oct. 20 Keekli Bureau 2014 Dominican-born American fashion designer Oscar de la Renta—whose work, blending European luxury with American ease, helped define standards of elegant dressing among socialites, U.S. first ladies, and...

Shimla, Oct 17, Keekli Bureau 2018 Recreational marijuana became legal in Canada. 2005 The Colbert Report—an ironic send-up of television news programs, hosted by Stephen Colbert—debuted on Comedy Central; it ran until 2014. 1972 American rapper and...