On this day:
1858: Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
1870: World’s first underground railway opened under River Thames, London
1958: The Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq, is dissolved
Born on this day:
1820: John Tyndall, British physicist, known for “Tyndall Effect”
1861: Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, Bengali chemist and founder of Bengal Chemicals And Pharmaceuticals, born in Khulna
Gone on this day:
1922: Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/American engineer, invented the Telephone
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