On This Day On This Day | 14 May

On This Day | 14 May

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On this day:1796: The first smallpox vaccination is administered by Edward Jenner 1948: Israel becomes an independent state 1955: The Warsaw Pact is established between eight communist bloc countries 1962: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan elected second President of India Born on this day: 1984: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook Gone on this Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 13 May

On This Day | 13 May

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On this day:1952: Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of India 1952: The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting 1998: India carries out its fourth and fifth nuclear tests at Pokhran. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. Born on Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 12 May

On This Day | 12 May

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On this day:1459: Jodhpur, Sun City, founded by Rao Jodhpur in India 1941: The world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer Z3 is presented 1949: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first foreign woman ambassador received in USA Born on this day: 1820: Florence Nightingale, Italian/English nurse 1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Songs of Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 11 May

On This Day | 11 May

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On this day: 868: The earliest surviving dated printed book, Diamond Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism, is produced in China 1998: India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device Born on this day: 1904: Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter 1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Gone Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 10 May

On This Day | 10 May

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On this day:1857: Indian Sepoy Mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins in Meerut 1994: Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa’s first black president 2000: India’s population reaches 1 billion. Delhi’s baby girl Aastha chosen as a symbolic billionth Gone on this day:1774: Louis XV of France

On This Day On This Day | 09 May

On This Day | 09 May

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On this day: 2012: The brand-new Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crashes 1960: The first birth control pill, Enovid, is approved Born on this day: 1837: Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company 1866: Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter, born in Kotluk, Bombay Presidency Gone on Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 08 May

On This Day | 08 May

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On this day:1886: Coca-Cola is invented by Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John Styth Pemberton 1933: MK Gandhi begins a three week fast in protest against British oppression in India 1978: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climb Mount Everest without oxygen supply Born on this day:1884: Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 07 May

On This Day | 07 May

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On this day:1895: Alexander Popov demonstrates the world’s first radio receiver 1945: Germany’s Nazi regime surrenders unconditionally 1946: Sony is founded as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering. Born on this day:1711: David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, philosopher 1812: Robert Browning, English poet 1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher, poet, writer (Nobel Prize for Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 06 May

On This Day | 06 May

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On this day:1542: Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, then capital of Portuguese India 1909: Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case in Calcutta, India 1994: The Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom with France is opened Born on this day:1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist Gone on this Read more…

On This Day On This Day | 05 May

On This Day | 05 May

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On this day:1955: West Germany regains full sovereignty after World War II 1955: Indian parliament accepts Hindu divorce Born on this day:1479: Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru, born in Amritsar, Punjab, India 1818: Karl Marx, German philosopher 1861: Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and freedom fighter, born in Agra Gone Read more…