On this day:
1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest
2015: Heatwave in India centred in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week
Born on this day:
1906: T. H. White, English novelist, author of the King Arthur novels, born in Bombay, British IndiaÂ
1914: Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer
Gone on this day:
1829: Humphry Davy, English chemist, physicist
1987: Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (1979-80), dies at 84
