On this day:
1919 Afghanistan Gains Independence From the United Kingdom
1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1964 World’s First Geostationary Satellite, Syncom, is Launched
Born on this day:
1871 Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer
1967 Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman (CEO of Microsoft), born in Hyderabad
Gone on this day:
1994 Linus Pauling, American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
