On This Day | 09 June

On this day:

1752: French army surrenders to the British in Trichinopoly, India

1928: Charles Kingsford Smith completes the world’s first trans-Pacific flight

Gone on this day:

1870: Charles Dickens, English author

1974: Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate

2011: M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter