History Today: When Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest

Bachendri Pal scripted history on May 23, 1984, becoming the first Indian woman to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. She was part of the country's fourth Everest expedition, commanded by Brigadier DK Khullar. On this day in 1934, notorious criminals during the Great Depression era, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were shot dead by the police in Louisiana

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