On this day: 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Emperor of the French 1918: Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia 1974: India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb 1980: Mount St. Helens erupts Born on this day: 1933: Deve Gowda, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1996-97), born Read more…
On this day:1756: Britain declares war on France (7 Years’ or French & Indian War) 1972: Germany ratifies the Treaty of Warsaw 1990: The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases Gone on this day: 1510: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter
On this day: 1960: Theodore Maiman fires the first functional laser 1975: Sikkim becomes a part of India 1975: Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest 2003: Calcutta high court rules Calcutta does not have a birthday and that British East India employee Job Charnock is not Read more…
On this day:1718: The world’s first machine gun, called Puckle Gun, is patented by James Puckle 1928: The first Mickey Mouse film, Plane Crazy, is screened 1940: The first McDonald’s fast food restaurant opens Born on this day: 1817: Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer 1907: Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter Read more…
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: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: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: 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…