Historical Events

1336 : Harihar and Bukka established the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar.

1831 : Establishment of the University of Alabama.

1859 : Tatya Tope, leader of the1857 Rebellion, was executed.

1898: Damodar Chapekar, assassinator British officer Rand, was executed.

1924: Simon and Schuster published the first book of crossword puzzles.

1950: Vinoba Bhave’s Bhudan movement started in Pochampalli village in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana).

1954: Gamal Abdel Nasser took power in Egypt.

1971: Air India’s first Boeing 747 jumbo jet arrived at Santa Cruz Airport. 1991: Kerala became the first fully literate state of India.

2001: GSLV-D1 carrier launched successfully from Sriharikota base. 2020: Coronavirus Pandemic: Europe surpassed 100,000 COVID -19 deaths.

Birthdays

1809: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, an Indian poet of English.

1858: Dhondo Keshav Karve, a social reformer in India.

1916: Lalita Pawar, an Indian actress.

1958: Malcolm Marshall, a Barbadian cricketer.

1962: Poonam Dhillon, an Indian Hindi-language film, theatre, and TV actress.

1963: Conan O’Brien, an American television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer.

1992: KL Rahul, an Indian international cricketer.

Death Anniversaries

1859 : Tatya Tope, leader of the 1857 Rebellion

1898: Damodar Hari Chafekar, an Indian revolutionary.

1945: Sir John Ambrose Fleming, an English electrical engineer, and physicist.

1955: Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

1966: Swami Kuvalayananda, a researcher and educator.

1999 : Raghuveer Singh, an internationally acclaimed Indian photographer.

2002: Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer, and ethnographer.