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History Today: When the 2016 Uri terror attack claimed the lives of 19 Indian soldiers
Published on: Sept. 18, 2025, 9:09 a.m. | Source: Firstpost
On September 18, the 2016 Uri terrorist attack resulted in India reshaping defence policy and taking a direct approach to cross-border terrorism. The same date has seen Jimi Hendrix’s death which shocked the music world in 1970, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 plane crash, and Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum