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Showing posts with label THIS DAY IN HISTORY. Show all posts

history 12/3

>> Tuesday, March 15, 2011

1930-Gandhiji begins the 200 mile Dandi March to the sea in protest of the British salt tax in colonial India.
1993-A series of 13 bombs are exploded in Bombay, 257killed & 713injured.

2006-S.AFRICA:438-9(49.5) beat AUSTRALIA:434-4(50) in RECORD HIGH-SCORING ODI @Johannesburg. Dis remains d HIGHEST RUN-CHASE EVER in ODI HISTORY


B'DAY:
1913-Yashwantrao Chavan
1964-Falguni Pathak
1983-Atif Aslam
1984-Shreya Ghoshal

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history 11/3

1990-Lithuania declares itself independent from the SovietUnion
1999-Infosys becomes the 1st Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange

2011-An earthquake measuring 8.9 in magnitude struck 80 miles east of Honshu Island, Japan, triggering a tsunami.


B'DAYZ:
1915-Vijay Hazare
1931-Rupert Murdoch
1954-Vinod Dua
1985-Ajantha Mendis

DEATHS:
1955-Alexander Fleming
1963-Mohammad Nissar

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history 10/3

1876-Alexander Graham Bell makes d 1st successful telephone call & says "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1922-Gandhiji is arrested, tried for sedition & sentenced to 6yrs in prison, only to be released after nearly 2yrs for an appendicitis operation


B'DAY:
1957-Osama Bin Laden

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history 9/3

1959-The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.


B'DAYZ:
1454-Amerigo Vespucci
1931-Dr. Karan Singh
1934-Yuri Gagarin
1951-Zakir Hussain
1956-Shashi Tharoor
1985-Parthiv Patel
1996-Darsheel Safary

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history 8/3

1817-New York Stock Exchange is founded

1911-International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen,Denmark by Clara Zetkin, leader of Women's Office for Social DemocraticParty in Germany
1957-Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis


B'DAYZ:
1974-Fardeen Khan
1984-Ross Taylor

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history 7/3

1876-Telephone is patented by Alexander Graham Bell

1912-Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on 14 Dec1911


B'DAYZ:
1934-Nari Contractor
1949-Ghulam Nabi Azad
1952-Vivian Richards
1955-Anupam Kher
1984-Lonwabo Tsotsobe
1985-Luke Wright

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history 6/3

1869-Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1957-Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) gains it's independence from United Kingdom and becomes the first black African country to become independent.



B'DAYZ:
1937-Valentina Tereshkova
1975-Anuj Sharma

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history 5/3

1836-Samuel Colt makes the first production model revolver, the .34-caliber.

1931-Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.

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history 4/3

1861-The 1st national flag of the Confederate States of America (Stars & Bars) is adopted
1882-Britain's 1st electric trams run in east London.


B'DAYZ:
1922-Dina Pathak
1967-Daryll Cullinan
1980-Rohan Bopanna
1980-Kamalinee Mukherjee
1986-Shraddha Das

DEATH:
1995-Iftekhar Khan

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history 3/3

1915-NACA the predecessor of NASA founded
1923-The first issue of TIME magazine is published.
1939-In Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.

2009-The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by gunmen while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.


B'DAYZ:
1839-Jamsetji Tata
1847-Alexander Graham Bell
1970-Inzamam-ul-Haq

DEATH:
1707-Aurangzeb

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history 2/3

1983-Compact Disc players & discs were released for the first time in the US & other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.


2002-U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters).

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history 1/3

1936-The Hoover Dam is completed
1966-Venera 3 Soviet spaceprobe crashes on Venus becoming d 1st spacecraft to land on another planet's surface
1992-Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from SFR of Yugoslavia.


B'DAYS:
1968-Salil Ankola
1980-Shahid Afridi
1980-Abdur Rehman
1986-NC Karunya
1994-Justin Bieber
1995-The website Yahoo! was incorporated

DEATHS:
1989-Vasantdada Patil
1994-Manmohan Desai

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history 28/2

1928-CV Raman discovered Raman effect.
1953-Scientists James D Watson & Francis Crick announce they've discovered the chemical structure of DNA
1991-The first Gulf War ends.


B'DAYZ:
1951-Karsan Ghavri
1985-Jelena Jankovic

DEATH:
1963-Rajendra Prasad


#National Science Day (India)#

VIGNAN MAHOTSAV(national level youth fest)-vadlamudi,guntur

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history 27/2

1964-The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over
1991-Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated & Kuwait is liberated.

2010-Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.



B'DAYZ:
1912-Kusumagraj
1980-Chelsea Clinton

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history 24/2

2010 - Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in one-day history to break the 200 run barrier against South Africa in Gwalior.


B'DAYZ:
1924-Talat Mahmood
1948-J.Jayalalithaa
1955-Steve Jobs
1963-Sanjay Leela Bhansali
1981-Lleyton Hewitt
1981-Mohammad Sami

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history 23/2

1947-The International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded
1987-Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since1604


B'DAY:
1483-Babur
1974-Herschelle Gibbs
1982-Karan Singh Grover


DEATH:
1969-King Saud of Saudi Arabia
1998-Raman Lamba
2004-Vijay Anand

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history 22/2

1819-By the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for $5 million.

1958-Egypt & Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1979-St. Lucia gains independence from UK.

2009-Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars.


B'DAYZ:
1732-George Washington
1963-Vijay Singh
1965-Sooraj Barjatya
1983-Shaun Tait
1983-Clint McKay



DEATH:
1944-Kasturba Gandhi
1958-Abul Kalam Azad

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history 19/2

>> Sunday, February 20, 2011

1878-Thomas Edison patents d phonograph

1959-Britain,Turkey,Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus indpendnce
1986-USSR launches Mir spacestation in2 EarthOrbit


B'DAYZ:
1473-Nicolaus Copernicus
1630-Shivaji
1964-Sonu Walia

DEATH:
1915-Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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history 18/2

1930-US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1965-The Gambia becomes independent from the UK
1979-Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

2007-Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat,Haryana, killing 68 people.


B'DAYZ:
1926-Nalini Jaywant
1931-Swaraj Paul
1954-John Travolta
1960-Sajid Nadiadwala
1979-Tinu Yohannan

DEATH:
1294-Kublai Khan

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history 17/2

1959:Vanguard-2 The 1st weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution
1979:Sino-Vietnamese War begins.China invades Vietnam


B'DAYZ:
1874-Thomas Watson
1963-Michael Jorden
1981-Paris Hilton
1984-AB de Villiers
1984-Sadha

DEATH:
1883-Vasudeo Balwant Phadke

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