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On this day:1675: King Charles II of England commissions the Royal Observatory in Greenwich 1904: The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal 1953: Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for Old Man and the Sea 1959: The Grammy is presented for the first time Born on Read more…
On this day:1939: The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Subhash Chandra Bose 1913: The first Indian full-length feature film, Raja Harishchandra, is premiered 2019: Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State causing one of the biggest human evacuations of 1.2 million in India in a day Born on this day:1469: Read more…
On this day:1989: The Iron Curtain begins to fall as Hungary makes its border fence porous for those escaping East Germany 2018: Indian city of Kanpur declared world’s most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20 Born on this day:1921: Satyajit Ray, Indian director, Read more…
On this day:1489: Christopher Columbus proposes his idea to discover a western route to India to Spanish monarch, Isabella I. 1960: India’s Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states 1978: Naomi Uemura becomes of the first person to reach the North Pole alone Born on this day:1913: Balraj Sahni, Read more…
On this day:1789: George Washington becomes the first U.S. President 1955: Imperial Bank of India nationalized 1993: CERN announces that World Wide Web protocols will remain free 2013: Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is declared “The First Superstar of Indian cinema” at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards Born on this day: Read more…
On this day:1997: The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effective Born on this day:1803: James Brooke, British adventurer and 1st Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), born in Bandel, near Calcutta 1848: Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter, born in Kilimanoor, Travancore Gone on this day:1980: Alfred Hitchcock, English director, producer
On this day:2001: Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist in history 2018: Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village Born on this day:1795: Charles Sturt, English explorer (Australia), born in Bengal, British India 1908: Oskar Schindler, Czech/German businessman Gone on this day:1945: Benito Mussolini, Italian politician, Read more…
On this day: 1911: Indian passive resistance is suspended when General J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi 1961: Sierra Leone becomes an independent republic Born on this day: 1593: Mumtaz Mahal, Empress consort of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal as her mausoleum 1791: Samuel Read more…
On this day: 1929: First non-stop England to India flight lands 1986: The worst nuclear disaster in history occurs in Chernobyl Born on this day: 1950: L. Shankar, Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer, born in Madras Gone on this day: 1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (number theory)
On this day: 1859: Construction of the Suez Canal begins 1953: The double helix structure of DNA described for the first time Born on this day: 1961: Dinesh D’Souza, Indian-American author (2016: Obama’s America), born in Mumbai