On this day:
1919: Afghanistan Gains Independence From the United Kingdom
1944: Last Japanese troops were 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
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