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Milan Aćimović

The Commissioner Government was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist puppet government established in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II from 30 April to 29 August 1941. It was headed by Milan Aćimović (pictured) and was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-communist. The Aćimović government was merely an instrument of the German occupation regime, carrying out its orders within the occupied territory without appearing to moderate its policies. The government actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the population and the economy, and its members regarded their own participation in the Holocaust as "unpleasant but unavoidable". By mid-July, the Germans had decided that the Aćimović regime was incompetent, and the Commissioner Government resigned at the end of August. It was succeeded by the Government of National Salvation, in which Aćimović initially retained the interior portfolio. (Full article...)

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August 29

Michael Faraday

1350 – Hundred Years' War: Led by King Edward III, an English fleet of 50 ships captured at least 14 Castilian ships and sank several more in the Battle of Winchelsea.
1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of his law of induction.
1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, was launched.
1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.
1959 – Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

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The Buddha Park of Ravangla is situated near Ravangla in South Sikkim district of the Indian state of Sikkim. It was constructed between 2006 and 2013, and features a 130-foot-tall (40 m) statue of the Buddha, pictured here, as its main attraction. The statue was erected to mark the 2550th anniversary of the birth of Gautama Buddha, and was consecrated on 25 March 2013 by the 14th Dalai Lama.

Photograph credit: Subhrajyoti Saha

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