1851 : William Lassell discovered the Umbrellas and Ariel moons of the planet Uranus.
1857 : Sheffield FC opened in Sheffield, England, the world’s oldest football club.
1901 : Anne Edson Taylor became the first person to jump out of a barrel at Niagara Falls.
1909 : Vinayak Savarkar celebrated Dussehra for the first time in London under the presidency of Gandhi.
1945 : United Nations was established after World War II with the signature of 50 countries.
1946 : Earth was first photographed from space.
1949 : United Nations headquarters began operations.
1963 : Due to the drought in India, rice was banned in public and at large ceremonies.
1964 : Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and is renamed Zambia.
1984 : The first subway in India was started at Kolkata.
1997 : Satar player Pandit Ravi Shankar was awarded the Premium Imperial International Award of Japan for his outstanding achievements in the field of music.
2000 : Central Government’s Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Award was announced to Baba Amte.
2004 : Brazil performed the first successful rocket test in space.
2003 : Concorde’s last commercial flight.
2016 : Cyrus Mistry fired as Tata Group chairman.
Famous Birthdays – October 24
1632: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist.
1775: Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of Delhi.
1890: Sisir Kumar Mitra, an Indian physicist.
1891: Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic.
1914: Captain Lakshmi Sehgal of the Jhashi Rani Regiment in the Azad Hind Sena.
1921: R. K. Laxman, Indian Cartoonists.
1926: Kedarnath Sahani, Governor of Sikkim and Mayor of Delhi.
1935: Mark Tully, an Indian journalist, and writer.
1940: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Indian space scientist.
1707 : Meeting of the first Parliament of Great Britain.
1850 : The first national women’s rights convention began in the United States.
1944 : In World War II, the Soviet Red Army invaded Hungary.
1947 : Gerty Cori and her husband Carl Cori were the first couples to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was given this award for his theory of the carbohydrate cycle.
1973 : UN-imposed sanctions end the war between Israel and Syria.
1997 : Kiran Bedi awarded the German Joseph Beauze Prize for Social Work.
2004 : Earthquake in Japan rendered 85 thousand people homeless.
2012 : After 38 years, the world’s first Teletext service (BBC’s Ceefax) ceased broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
Famous Birthdays – October 23
1778: Kittur Chennamma, the Queen of the Nayakas of the kingdom of Kittur, India.
1879: Shankar Ramchandra (Ahitagni Rajwade), Indian Vedic proponents.
1923: Aslam Farooqi, an Indo-Pakistani linguist, writer, and scholar.
1925: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 11th Vice President of India.
1937: Deven Verma, Indian actor, director, and producer.
1940: Pele, Brazilian footballer.
1957: Sunil Bharti Mittal, an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the founder and chairperson of Bharti Enterprises.
1959: “Weird Al” Yankovic, an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, satirist, actor, music video director, and author
1973: Malaika Arora, an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ, and television personality.
1974: Arvind Adiga, Indian journalist, and writer.
Death Anniversaries – October 23
1834: Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr, the second Shah of Qajar Iran.
1869: Edward Smith-Stanley, British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1910: King Chulalongkorn Rama V of Thailand.
1921: John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish researcher who invented the technique of using a tube filled with air inside the wheel.
1944: Charles Glover Barkla, a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1957: Christian Dyer, French fashion designer, founder of Christian Dior SE.
2012: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian-Bengali poet, and novelist.
1633 : Battle of Leolulu Bay: The Ming Dynasty defeated the Dutch East India Company.
1797 : Andre Jacques Garnerin became the first man to land on a parachute at an altitude of 1,000 meters above a balloon.
1927 : Nikola Tesla invented six new inventions, including the single-phase electric.
1938 : Chester Carlson created the world’s first Xerox machine.
1962 : India’s largest multipurpose river valley project ‘Bhakra Nangal’ dedicated to the nation.
1964 : French writer, poet, and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize but rejected it.
1994 : Indian industrialist Navinbhai C. Dave was awarded the Queen of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s Coat of Arms Award for her work in industry and education.
2001 : Grand Theft Auto 3 video game was released.
2008 : India launched the first unmanned Chandrayaan-1.
Famous Birthdays – October 22
1689: King John V of Portugal.
1900: Ashfaqullah Khan, an Indian freedom fighter.
1928: Jayanta Mahapatra, a major Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry.
1935: D. Y. Patil, Indian educator, politician, and governor of former governor of Bihar.
1937: Kader Khan, an Indian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.
1942: Raghuveer Singh, an internationally renowned photographer.
1947: Deepak Chopra, an American doctor, and writer of Indian descent.
1952: A. S. Kiran Kumar, an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation
1964: Amit Shah, an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs.
1988: Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress.
Death Anniversaries – October 22
1933: Vithalbhai Patel, an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party and elder brother of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
1954: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist.
1964: Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin, a Bengali conservative politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. Former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1975: Arnold Toynbee, a British historian.
1978: Narayan Sitaram Phadke, an Indian writer and orator.
1982: Savitri Devi Mukherji, an English-Greek-French proponent of Nazism.
1991: G. M. Sohoni, a supporter of the Dehdan (autopsy) movement and founder of the Dehdan (autopsy) support board in India.
1998: Ajit, Indian-Hindi film actor.
2000: Ashok Motilal Firodia, chief functionary of Ahmednagar Education Society, social activist, and industrialist from India.
2007: Ève Curie, a French and American writer, journalist, and pianist. Daughter of Marie Curie.
2012: Russell Charles Means, an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans.
1891: Sir James Chadwick, the British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron in the atom.
1893: Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president.
1920: Siddharth Shankar Ray, an Indian lawyer, and politician.
1920: Leila Seth, an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court.
1927: Guntur Seshandar Sharma, an Indian poet, and critic.
1963: Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer, commentator, and MP.
1978: Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer and commentator.
Death Anniversaries – October 20
1740: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
1890: Sir Richard Burton, British writer, poet, researcher, diplomat, and spy.
1961: V. S. Guha, Indian Anthropologist.
1964: Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, dies.
1984: Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize-winning English physicist.
1999: Madhavrao Limaye, Indian socialist leader, freedom fighter and journalist.
2011: Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator.
2012: John McConnell, who started Earth Day.
2012: Edward Thomas, an American physician, professor.
