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Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) [1] [2] was an Indian flight purser.On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.
Throughout 1964, Malcolm X's conflict with the Nation of Islam (NOI) intensified, and he was repeatedly threatened. [3] Malcolm X fell out with the NOI, and the group's leader Elijah Muhammad, after Malcolm X's provocative remarks about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and also after Malcolm X condemned Elijah Muhammad's sexual relationships with several children.
The three girls who were killed in the attack were named on 30 July. [24] The last of the injured children was discharged from hospital on 8 August, ten days after the stabbing. [25] Lucas was readmitted to hospital due to breathing issues and was expected to undergo lung surgery. [26] [27]
Police gradually shut down a large part of Prague's city centre during the shooting The Faculty of Arts building and its surroundings remained closed the day after the mass shooting. A 32-year-old man and his two-month-old daughter were killed in Klánovice Forest on 15 December 2023.
The two La Martinière schools in Lucknow are one of the few educational institution in India, and possibly in the world, depicted on postage stamps. On 1 October 1995, on the 150th anniversary of the school's opening, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then President of India, released a two-rupee postage stamp in the school's honour. [5] [22]
Up until 1982 all British servicemen killed in action were buried and commemorated as close to the place of death as possible and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission managed these graves. [ 1 ] After the Falklands War , one family requested the repatriation of their fallen son's body and, following this, other families requested the same ...
Over 1,000 people were killed in riots, and tens of thousands were expelled from their homes. [2] After a period of relative calm, hostilities were reignited by rumors that a Muslim girl had been raped by a Christian man. Thousands of Muslims and Christians were killed during the following year, and more than 60,000 families are reported to ...
[8] [9] Death is also seen as the gateway to the beginning of the afterlife. In Islamic belief, death is predetermined by God, and the exact time of a person's death is known only to God. Death is accepted as wholly natural, and merely marks a transition between the material realm and the unseen world. [10]