On this day:
1940: Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta
1972: India and Pakistan sign Simla Agreement peace accord
2001: World’s first self-contained artificial heart transplant performed on Robert Tools
Born on this day:
1877: Hermann Hesse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1566: Nostradamus, French astrologer
1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher, polymath
1961: Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
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