On this day:
1930: Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time
1964: Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India
1984: The video game Tetris is published by Russian computer engineer, Alexey Pajitnov
2004: Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Born on this day:
1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun, German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929: Sunil Dutt, Indian Bollywood director, actor and politicianÂ
Gone on this day:
1961: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
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