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Calcutta restored to British rule: 9 February 1757 - This Day in History
Concluded this day in 1757 by Robert Clive, the Treaty of Alinagar restored Calcutta (now Kolkata)—which Clive had recovered in January from Siraj al-Dawlah—to British rule and served as a prelude to the seizure of Bengal.
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1996: German physicist Peter Armbruster and his team of scientists synthesized the chemical element 112, a heavy, transuranium element that was later named copernicium.
1984: Soviet Premier Yury Andropov died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev and was replaced by Konstantin Chernenko.
1796: Qianlong, the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty, abdicated and was succeeded by Jiaqing.
Alice Walker: Biography of the Day
" ‘When you ask me about peace, Suwelo,' said Miss Lissie, ‘if I've ever in all my lifetimes experienced peace, I am nearly perplexed. Could it be possible that after hundreds of lifetimes I have not known peace? That seems to be the fact. In lifetime after lifetime I have known oppression: from parents, siblings, relatives, governments, countries, continents. As well as from my own body and mind.' "Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar (1990)
The works of American writer Alice Walker, born this day in 1944 and perhaps best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (1982), are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture.
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