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21 FEBRUARY
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a bus ride to Lahore, Pakistan, in a gesture of goodwill. This was seen as a major peace initiative between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
21-22 FEBRUARY
Vajpayee and Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration, aiming to foster better relations, peace, and mutual trust. The declaration, among other things, focused on reducing the risk of accidental or unauthorised use of nuclear weapons and avoiding any ballistic missile tests.
5-9 MAY
The Indian Army sends patrols to verify the reports; one such patrol goes missing. Heavy shelling by Pakistan occurs, hitting Indian ammunition dumps in Kargil.
10 MAY
The Indian Army detects significant infiltration by Pakistani soldiers and militants in the Dras, Kaksar, and Mushkoh sectors.
MID-MAY
Indian military mobilises the movement of formations and troops (especially 8 Division) from the Kashmir valley into Kargil.
On This Day: 10th February
On This Day: 11th February
On This Day: 12th February
Keren Day – Battle Honor Keren 4 RAJRIF
On This Day: 13th February
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
On This Day: 14th February
2019 – Pulwama Attack: A convoy of vehicles carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir killing 40 Indian personnel and the perpetrator—Adil Ahmad Dar—who was a local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama district. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed.
On This Day: 15th February
1911 – Raising Days of Indian Army's Corps of Signals. It was raised as a separate entity under Lieutenant Colonel S H Powell.
On This Day: 16th February
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
On This Day: 17th February
Margaret Bourke-White
On 22 January 22 1943, Major Rudolph Emil Flack piloted the lead aircraft with Margaret Bourke-White as the first female photographer/writer to fly on a combat mission aboard his 414th Bombardment Squadron B-17F and bombed the El Aouina Airdrome in Tunis, Tunisia. Bourke-White was also the first female war correspondent.