On this day:
1851: The world’s first chess tournament is held in London
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is opened
2017: In Bangalore, India, white puffy toxic foam begins spilling out of Varthur Lake onto city streets
Born on this day:
1923: Henry Kissinger, German/American politician, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1919: Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer from Andhra Pradesh
1964: Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) dies of an assumed heart attack at 74
