On this day:
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York
1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
1944 Iceland becomes a republic
Born on this day:
1973 Leander Paes, Indian tennis player, born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Gone on this day:
1839 Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India 1828-1835
