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: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: 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: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: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: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: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…
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…