On This Day On This Day | 20 June

On This Day | 20 June

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On this day:1756: Black Hole Incident of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion 1837: Victoria becomes Queen of the United Kingdom Born on this day:1952: Vikram Seth, Indian poet and Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 19 June

On This Day | 19 June

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On this day:1981: India’s APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched 1978:Jim Davis’ famous comic character Garfield makes his debut Born on this day:1947: Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist, author of Midnight’s Children, Satanic Verses Gone on this day:1949: Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani Prominent Muslim philosopher, dies at Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 18 June

On This Day | 18 June

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On this day: 1815: Napoleon suffers a shattering defeat at the Battle of Waterloo 1940: A speech by Charles de Gaulle sparks the French Resistance to German occupation Born on this day: 1929: Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist, philosopher Gone on this day: 1858: Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North Read more…