1 / 91666 | The great Maratha leader Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj escaped in a fruit basket from Agra. (Image: Shutterstock)
2 / 91839 | The details of the first practical photographic process by Louis Daguerre were released in Paris. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
3 / 91941 | Germany invaded the Soviet Union as Romania annexed the Transnistria territory from the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
4 / 91944 | The last of the Japanese troops were driven out of India. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
5 / 91953 | Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom and the United States. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
6 / 91991 | The conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempted to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a historic coup. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
7 / 92014 | NASA satellite photos revealed that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had completely dried up for the first time. (Image: NASA)
8 / 92018 | The monsoon in Kerala finally eased after the floods took 350 lives and put 200,000 people in relief camps. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
9 / 92020 | Tech Giant Apple became the first US company to be valued at USD 2 trillion. (Image: Shutterstock)
