On This Day On This Day | 18 May

On This Day | 18 May

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On this day: 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Emperor of the French 1918: Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia 1974: India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb 1980: Mount St. Helens erupts Born on this day: 1933: Deve Gowda, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1996-97), born Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 17 May

On This Day | 17 May

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On this day:1756: Britain declares war on France (7 Years’ or French & Indian War) 1972: Germany ratifies the Treaty of Warsaw 1990: The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases Gone on this day: 1510: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter

On This Day On This Day | 16 May

On This Day | 16 May

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On this day: 1960: Theodore Maiman fires the first functional laser 1975: Sikkim becomes a part of India 1975: Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest 2003: Calcutta high court rules Calcutta does not have a birthday and that British East India employee Job Charnock is not Read more…