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The 1st Sikh War in India comes to a conclusion in 1846 with the Battle of Sobraon.
The Battle of Sobraon took place on February 10, 1846, between the armies of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Punjab Sikh Empire. T...
The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, is a Canadian pop and R&B singer-songwriter born in Toronto, Ontario in 1990.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer better known as the Weeknd. Tesfaye's work explores escapism...
Elizabeth Olsen, an American actress, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1989.
Elizabeth Chase Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an actress from the United States. Olsen, who was born in Sherman Oaks, California, began acting at the age of fo...
Mahesh Bhupati, an Indian tennis player, married Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Lara Dutta in Bandra, Mumbai, in 2011.
On February 16, 2011, he married Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta in a civil ceremony in Bandra, Mumbai. On the 20th of February 2011, a Christian ceremony was held a...
In 2021, actor Nicholas Cage marries Riko Shibata for the sixth time at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
Cage married for the fifth time on February 16, 2021, to his Japanese fiancée Riko Shibata, with whom he is expecting his third kid. Nicolas Cage and his ne...
On February 16, 1990, the film 'Agneepath' was released in theatres.
Vijay, a criminal, is determined to destroy Kancha, the man who brutally murdered his father years ago. He is willing to go to any extent to restore his family'...
Michael Jordan, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), usually known by his initials MJ, is a former professional basketball player and businessman from the United State...
Michael Bay, an American film director, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1965.
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is a film director and producer from the United States. He is well known for his large-budget, high-concept action fi...
Denise Richards, an American actress, was born in Downers Grove, Illinois in 1971.
Denise Richards, born February 17, 1971, is an actress, television personality, and former fashion model from the United States. Carmen Ibanez in Starship Troopers...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an American actor and director, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1982.
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt, born February 17, 1981, is a film and television actor from the United States. He has won several honours, including Golden Globe nom...
Paris Hilton, an American actress and heiress, was born in New York City in 1981.
Paris Whitney Hilton, born February 17, 1981, is a media personality, socialite, entrepreneur, model, singer, DJ, and actor from the United States. Hilton was born...
Bonnie Wright, a British actress, was born in London, England in 1991.
Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on February 17, 1991 in London, England. She is an English actress, model, director, and campaigner. She is best recognised for he...
AB de Villiers, a South African cricketer, was born in Warmbad, South Africa in 1984.
Abraham Benjamin de Villiers is a former professional cricketer from South Africa. During his 15-year international career, De Villiers was named the ICC One-Day I...
Ed Sheeran, an English singer-songwriter, was born in Halifax, England in 1991.
Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE (born 17 February 1991) is a singer-songwriter from England. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suff...
The world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, initially appears in comic books in 1936.
On February 17, 1936, a daily newspaper strip debuted, followed by a colour Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of 2022. According to King Feat...
In 1972, Volkswagen Beetle sales surpassed those of the Ford Model T.
On February 17, 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line, shattering a global automobile production record set by the Ford Motor Compan...
In 2020, India's Supreme Court allows women in the armed services equal rights.
On February 17, 2021, the Indian government informed the Supreme Court that women can enrol in military institutions and be considered for permanent commissions. T...
John Travolta, an American actor and singer, was born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1954.
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is a singer and actor from the United States. During the 1970s, he rose to prominence by acting on the television com...
Dr. Dre, aka Andre Romelle Young, an American rapper and record producer, was born in Compton, California in 1965.
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965) is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur better known as Dr. Dre. He is the founder and CEO of Afterma...
J-Hope [Jung Ho-seok], a South Korean rapper, was born in Gwangju, South Korea in 1994.
Jung Ho-seok (born February 18, 1994) is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, dancer, and record producer better known by his stage name J-Hope (stylized as j-hope)....
Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, dies at the age of 88 in 1564.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), known simply as Michelangelo, was a High Renaissance Italian sculptor, painte...
Shivaji Bhonsle, Indian warrior and founder of the Maratha Empire, was born in Shivneri fort in 1630 and was hailed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in 1630.
Shivaji Bhonsale I, popularly known as Chhatrapati Shivaji, was an Indian monarch and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha tribe. Shivaji created the Maratha Empire by ...
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, an Indian social reformer and leader of the Indian Independence Movement, died in 1915 at the age of 48.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale CIE (May 9, 1866 – February 15, 1915) was an Indian'moderate' political leader and social reformer during India's independe...
On February 19, 1913, Pedro Lascurain took office in Mexico for the world's shortest presidency.
Juan Domingo de la Calzada Manuel Mara Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician who lived from 8 May 1856 until 21 July 1952. He served as Mexico's 34...
William Keith Kellogg established the Kellogg Cereal Company on February 19, 1906.
Kellogg's, full name Kellogg Company, is a major American manufacturer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food items. Kellogg's Corn Flakes were among the f...
Sidney Poitier, a Bahamian-American actor, the first black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor Director, civil rights activist, and diplomat, was born in Miami, Florida in 1927.
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat who was born on February 20, 1927. He was the first Black actor and the first Bahamian to...
Cindy Crawford, an American supermodel, was born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1966.
Cynthia Ann Crawford, born February 20, 1966, is a model, actress, and television personality from the United States. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of th...
In the year 1978, Chelsea Peretti is a comedian and actor from Oakland, California.
After moving to Los Angeles, Peretti made appearances on programs such as Kroll Show, Louie, The Sarah Silverman Program, TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., a...
Trevor Noah, a South African comedian, actor, and television personality, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1984.
Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a comedian, television personality, and political analyst from South Africa. He is the host of The Daily Show, a Comedy Cent...
Rihanna, a Barbadian R&B and pop singer-songwriter, was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, in 1988.
Fenty, Robyn Rihanna, was born on February 20, 1988. She is a singer, actor, fashion designer, and businesswoman from Barbados. Rihanna was found by American recor...
Olivia Rodrigo, an American actress and singer-songwriter, was born in Temecula, California in 2003.
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo, born February 20, 2003, is a singer-songwriter and actor from the United States. She rose to prominence as the lead in the Disney television...
In 1999, India's Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Navaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration on the use of nuclear weapons.
The treaty was signed on February 21, 1999, at the end of a historic summit in Lahore, and approved by both nations' parliaments the following year. Prime Mini...
Alan Rickman, an English actor, was born in Hammersmith, London, in 1946.
Alan Sidney's Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director who was born on February 21, 1946. He educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London a...
Abhijit Banerjee, an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, was born in Mumbai, India in 1961.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, born 21 February 1961 in India, is an Indian-born naturalised American economist who is now the Ford Foundation International Professor o...
Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and writer, was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1978.
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter who was born on May 2, 1978. He is most known for playing Dinesh in the HBO comedy se...
Elliot Page, a Canadian actor and LGBT activist, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1987.
Elliot Page is a Canadian actor and producer who was born on February 21, 1987. He has been nominated for an Oscar, two BAFTAs, two Emmys, and a Satellite Award, a...
Sophie Turner, English actress (Game of Thrones), was born in Northampton, England in 1996.
Sophie Belinda Jonas is an English actress who was born on February 21, 1996. She made her acting debut as Sansa Stark on HBO's epic fantasy television series ...
Nutan Bahl, an Indian actress, died of breast cancer in 1991 at the age of 54.
Nutan Samarth Bahl, often known as Nutan, was an Indian actress who starred in Hindi cinema.She performed in more than 70 films, primarily as a leading lady, durin...
Anne Frank, a Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust, died of typhus at the Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15 in 1945.
Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish ancestry who was born on June 12, 1929. She became one of the most discussed Jewish Holocaust vict...
In Westmoreland, Virginia, George Washington, the first President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, was born in 1732.
George Washington, born February 22, 1732, was an American soldier, politician, and Founding Father who served as the country's first president from 1789 until...
Drew Barrymore, an American actress, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1975.
Drew Blythe Barrymore, born February 22, 1975, is an American actress, director, producer, entrepreneur, and talk show presenter who has won a Golden Globe and a S...
Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Minister of Education, dies at the age of 69 in 1958.
Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer, and senior leader of the Indian...
Jennifer Lopez marries Ojani Noa on the grounds of a friend's Miami mansion in 1997.
Jennifer Lopez, born July 24, 1969, is a singer, actress, and dancer from the United States. Lopez debuted as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and was ...
Actor Paul Rudd married publicist Julie Yaeger in 2003.
Paul Stephen Rudd is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer from the United States. Before making his acting debut in 1991, he studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American A...
John Keats, an English Romantic poet, dies of TB at the age of 25 in 1821.
John Keats was an English poet who, together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, was a member of the second generation of Romantic poets. By the end of the c...
Madhubala, née Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi, the Indian actress known as "The Venus of Indian Cinema," dies of a heart problem at the age of 36 in 1969.
Madhubala (born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi on 14 February 1933) was an Indian film actress and producer. She is still held in high respect half a century later, wi...
Michael Dell, an American computer manufacturer (Dell Technologies), was born in Houston, Texas in 1965.
Michael Saul Dell, born February 23, 1965, is a millionaire businessman and philanthropist in the United States. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Techn...
Karan Singh Grover, an Indian actor, was born in New Delhi, India in 1982.
Karan Singh Grover, born February 23, 1982, is an Indian model and actor best known for his roles in Dill Mill Gayye and Qubool Hai, two Indian television shows. H...
Emily Blunt, an English-American actress, was born in London, United Kingdom, in 1983.
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt, also known as Emily Olivia Leah Blunt, is a British actress who was born on February 23, 1983. She has received several awards, including ...
Skylar Grey, an American songwriter and performer, was born in Mazomanie, Wisconsin in 1986.
Skylar Grey, born Holly Brook Hafermann, is a singer, songwriter, and record producer from the United States. She has three studio albums and five extended plays t...
In the Battle of Karnal in 1739, the army of Iranian monarch Nadir Shah defeats the soldiers of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah of India.
During his conquest of India, Nader Shah, the founder of Iran's Afsharid dynasty, won a significant victory in the Battle of Karnal (24 February 1739). Within ...
Charles Cornwallis was named governor general of India in 1786.
In February 1786, British General Charles Cornwallis, Earl Cornwallis, was appointed as both Commander-in-Chief of British India and Governor of the Presidency of ...
Jayaram Jayalalitha, Indian actress and politician, and Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, was born in Mysore State in 1948.
Jayaram Jayalalithaa, born on February 24, 1948, was an Indian politician, actress, and philanthropist who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1991 to ...
In the year 1963, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian Bollywood director who was born in Mumbai.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian director, screenwriter, and music composer best known for his work in Hindi cinema. He was born on February 24, 1963. He has rec...
Malcolm Forbes, the American publisher of Forbes Magazine, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in 1990.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American businessman best known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which his father, B. C. Forbes, started. He was renowned as an...
Sridevi Kapoor, or Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan, the Indian actress and film producer dubbed "Indian cinema's first female superstar," drowns at the age of 54 in 2018.
Shree Amma Yanger Ayyappan, better known as Sridevi, was an Indian actress and film producer who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada films. She ...
Ajay Devgan marries actress Kajol Mukherjee in a traditional Maharashtrian wedding in Juhu, Varsha, in 1999.
Ajay Devgn married Kajol in a traditional Maharashtrian wedding at Devgn's home on February 24, 1999. The wedding drew widespread media attention, with some cr...
In 2012, the World Health Organization removed India off the list of nations with polio.
The World Health Organization today removed India, which has been polio-free for almost a year, from the list of polio endemic nations. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi...
Sir Donald Bradman AC, Australian cricket batsman and captain, died of pneumonia in 2001 at the age of 92.
Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, nicknamed "The Don" and born on August 27, 1908, was an Australian international cricketer widely regarded as the greatest...
In 1910, the Dalai Lama escapes Tibet for British India in order to avoid Chinese forces.
Lobsang Ngawang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal (12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, enthroned at a difficult perio...
Divya Bharti, an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi and Telugu films in the early 1990s, was born in Mumbai, Maharastra, India in 1974.
Divya Bharti born on February 25, 1974 was an Indian actress who mostly appeared in Hindi and Telugu films. She was one of the most popular and highly paid I...
Shahid Kapoor, an Indian actor, was born in New Delhi, India in 1981.
Shahid Kapoor, who was born on February 25, 1981, is an Indian film actor. He was first recognised for his love roles, but he has subsequently taken on roles in ac...
Danny Denzongpa, an Indian actor, was born in 1948.
Tshering Phintso "Danny" Denzongpa (born February 25, 1948) is an Indian actor, musician, and film director best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Sinc...
Urvashi Rautela, an Indian actress, model, and beauty pageant winner, was born in 1994.
Urvashi Rautela (born February 25, 1994) is an Indian model and actress who has appeared in Bollywood films. She won the title of Miss Diva Universe 2015 and repre...
Sanya Malhotra, the new face of Bollywood, is born and raised in Delhi in 1992.
Sanya Malhotra (born February 25, 1992) is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi cinema. After making her cinematic debut as Babita Kumari in the biograph...
India initiates air attacks on suspected terrorist sites within Pakistan in 2019.
February 26, India carried out air strikes on an alleged JeM terrorist camp deep within Pakistan. In the operation, India claimed to have killed "a substantia...
Levi Strauss was born on February 26, 1829.
Levi Strauss was a German-American businessman born on February 26th, 1829 in Bavaria, who immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 18 years old...
The singer Lauryn Hill received five Grammy awards on February 26, 1999.
The singer Lauryn Hill received five Grammy awards on February 26, 1999. For her 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the hip-hop and rhythm and blues performer won five wins at the 41st Ann...
Chandra Sekhar Azad, an Indian liberation warrior, dies at the age of 24 in 1931.
Chandra Shekhar Azad was the prototypical fiery revolutionary who fought fervently for his country's independence. Azad, a contemporary of Bhagat Singh, did no...
In 1803 there was a great fire in Bombay, India.
India awoke to the heartbreaking news that at least 14 people had died in a fire that ripped through a tavern in Mumbai's Lower Parel. The fire, which started ...
In the 2002 Godhra train fire, 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya were killed by Muslims.
The Godhra train burning happened on February 27, 2002, when 59 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya were murdered in a fire inside the Sabarmati Ex...
Pakistan shot down an Indian fighter plane and kidnapped the pilot in 2019, heightening tensions in the disputed Kashmir region.
Pakistan carried out its second attack throughout the day on February 27 within Indian-administered Kashmir. During this attack, a combat between Indian and Pakist...
At the North West Stadium in Potchefstroom on February 27, 2003, Glenn McGrath ambushed the Namibian batting,
At the North West Stadium in Potchefstroom on February 27, 2003, Glenn McGrath ambushed the Namibian batting, dismissing them for 45 in 14 overs and securing a victory by 256 runs on a favourable b...
Tiger Woods made his PGA debut in the Nissan Los Angeles Open on February 27, 1992, at the age of 16, becoming the sport's youngest player in 35 years.
Tiger Woods made his PGA debut in the Nissan Los Angeles Open on February 27, 1992, at the age of 16, becoming the sport's youngest player in 35 years. He was almost literally coached by his fa...
Hazel Keech is a British actress and model who was born in Essex, north-east London, in 1987 to an English father and an Indo-Mauritian mother.
Keech dabbled in television, cinema, and theatre. She performed in Agatha Christie's Marple, a British television series. Call The Shots, a BBC documentary, sh...
Michael Jackson wins a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards on February 28, 1984.
Michael Jackson wins a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards on February 28, 1984. Eight Grammys are given to Michael Jackson. Musician and performer Michael Jackson had a memorable evening as he brought...
The Raman Effect was discovered on February 28, 1987, by physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
The Raman Effect was discovered on February 28, 1987, by physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his research on "The scattering of light and the discovery of the Raman effect," Raman...
In 1932, 12 independence revolutionaries caught in and around Chittagong, Bengal province, India, under British control, were condemned to deportation for life, two to three-year prison sentences, and acquitted the remaining 32.
The mass trial of individuals detained during and after the raids ended in January 1932, and the verdict was handed down on March 1, 1932. Twelve of the accused we...
Justin Bieber, a Canadian pop singer and musician, was born in London, Ontario in 1994.
Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian musician who was born on March 1, 1994. He was found by American record entrepreneur Scooter Braun and signed with RBMG Records in...
Kesha, aka Rose Sebert, is an American pop singer who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1987.
Kesha Rose Sebert, born March 1, 1987, is a singer and songwriter from the United States. Kesha got signed to Kemosabe Records in 2005, when she was 18 years old. ...
Jensen Ackles, an American actor, was born in Dallas, Texas in 1978.
Jensen Ross Ackles, born March 1, 1978, is an actor, producer, and director from the United States. He is best known for his role as Dean Winchester in The WB/CW h...
Zack Snyder was born in 1966 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States.
Zachary Edward Snyder, born March 1, 1966, is a film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer from the United States. Dawn of the Dead, a remake of th...
Manmohan Desai, the Indian director behind Amar Akbar Anthony and Suhaag, died in 1994 at the age of 57.
Manmohan Desai was a cinema producer and director from India. He was born on February 26, 1937. Manmohan Desai hailed from Gujarat. Kikubhai Desai, his father, was...
Sarojini Naidu, an Indian independence warrior and poet, dies at the age of 70 in 1949.
Sarojini Naidu born on 13 February 1879 was a political activist and poet from India. She was a significant person in India's movement for independence from co...
Daniel Craig, an English actor, was born in Chester, England in 1968.
Daniel Craig is a British actor who was born on March 2, 1968. He rose to international prominence as the secret agent James Bond in the namesake film series, begi...
Tiger Shroff, aka Jai Hemant Shroff, is a Bollywood actor who was born in Mumbai in 1990.
Tiger Shroff, born Jai Hemant Shroff on March 2, 1990, is an Indian actor, martial artist, and dancer best known for his performances in Hindi cinema. He made his ...
At the Battle of Tukaroi in 1575, Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats the Bengali army.
The Mughal army marched into the capital of Bengal, Tanda (near Gaur), and Daud withdrew to Odisha. He had gathered a host. The action was forced on Munim Khan who...
Jamsetji Tata, an Indian businessman, was born in 1839.
On March 3, 1839, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born. He was a pioneering Indian industrialist who built the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He found...
Camila Cabello, a Cuban-born American singer-songwriter, was born in Cojimar, Cuba, in 1997.
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter who was born on March 3, 1997. She became well-known as a member of the girl group Fif...
Jessica Biel, an American actress, was born in Ely, Minnesota in 1982.
Jessica Claire Timberlake, born March 3, 1982, is a model and actress from the United States. Biel began her career as a vocalist, performing in musical performanc...
Shraddha Kapoor, who was born in 1987, is an Indian actress and singer who works primarily in Hindi cinema.
Shraddha Kapoor, born 3 March 1987, is an Indian actress and singer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. She is listed as one of India's most popular and highe...
Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian vocalist and composer who is a member of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy composing trio for Indian cinema.
Shankar Mahadevan, born 3 March 1967, is an Indian vocalist and composer who is a member of the composition group Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy for Indian cinema....
Sunil Kumar Mahato, an Indian legislator, died in 2007.
Sunil Kumar, born 11 January 1966, was a member of India's 14th Lok Sabha, representing the Jamshedpur seat in the eastern state of Jharkhand. He was the Gener...
Dina Pathak, an Indian Gujarati theatrical actor, director, and activist, was born in Amreli, Gujarat, India in 1922.
Dina Pathak, born 4 March 1922, was a Gujarati stage actress and director, as well as a cinema performer. She was a political activist and the President of the Nat...
In 1994, actor John Candy dies of a heart attack at the age of 43.
John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his work in Hollywood films. He was born on October 31, 1950. Candy rose to prominence in the ...
Joseph Stalin, the dictator and leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in 1953.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born 18 December 1878) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953. He wiel...
Eva Mendes, an American actress, was born in Miami, Florida in 1974.
Eva de la Caridad Méndez born on March 5, 1974 known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American actress, model and businesswoman. Her acting career began ...
Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, was born in Caprese, Tuscany, in 1475.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo, was an Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who lived from Mar...
Shaquille O'Neal, American Basketball Hall of Fame centre, was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1972.
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a former professional basketball player from the United States who now works as a sports analyst on the televi...
Janhvi Kapoor, an Indian cinema actress, was born in 1997.
Janhvi Kapoor, who was born on March 6, 1997, is an Indian actress who works mostly in Hindi-language films. She made her acting debut in 2018 with the romantic dr...
Ankit Tiwari, an Indian playback singer and music director, was born in 1990.
Ankit Tiwari is a playback vocalist, music director, and composer from India. His career began when he met Pradeep Sarkar, who gave him the opportunity to work on ...
Shammi, an Indian actress, died of natural causes in 2018 at the age of 88.
Shammi, an Indian actress, was born in 1929 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was a television and film actress from India. Nargis Rabadi is Shammi's real name. She ...
Ghulam Nabi Azad, an Indian National Congress politician, was born in 1949.
Ghulam Nabi Azad is a former Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and a Congress Party leader in India. He is frequently referred to be the Congress party&#...
Anupam Kher, an Indian actor and former Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, was born in 1955.
Anupam Kher, born 7 March 1955, is a former Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India. He has appeared in over 500 films, mostly in Hindi, as well as ...
Arnab Goswami, an Indian journalist and television news caster, was born in 1973.
Arnab Goswami (born 7 March 1973) is an Indian news presenter and journalist who serves as Republic Media Network's managing director and editor-in-chief. From...
Bryan Cranston, an American actor, was born in Canoga Park, California in 1956.
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in New York City and is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Hal...
Rachel Weisz, an English actress, was born in London, England in 1970.
Rachel Hannah Weisz (born March 7, 1970 or 1971) is an English actress. She has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Laurence...
Jenna Fischer, an American actress, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1974.
Regina "Jenna" Fischer was born March 7, 1974, is an American actress best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the NBC comedy The Office (2005&ndash...
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and polymath recognised as the founder of logic, biology, and zoology, dies at the age of 61 or 62 in 322 BC.
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath who lived in Ancient Greece during the Classical period. He founded the Lyceum, the Peripatetic s...
Fardeen Khan, an Indian former film actor best known for his work in Bollywood, was born in 1974.
Fardeen Khan is a well-known Indian cinema actor. He won a Filmfare Award in 1999 and is the son of actor, director, and film producer Feroz Khan. Fardeen Khan was...
Rani Karnavati, also known as Rani Karmavati, was the queen of Mewar when she died in 1535.
Rani Karnavati, was a princess and temporary queen from Bundi, India. She died on March 8, 1534. She married Rana Sanga of Chittorgarh, the Mewar Kingdom'...
Vasundhara Raje Scindia, an Indian politician, was born in 1953.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia, born March 8, 1953, is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Rajasthan for two terms. She was formerly a minister in At...
Harmanpreet Kaur, an Indian cricketer, was born in 1989.
Harmanpreet Kaur, who was born on March 8, 1989, is an Indian cricketer who now serves as the captain of the Indian side in Twenty20 Internationals. She is an all-...
Yuri Gagarin, Russian astronaut and the first man in space, was born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, in 1934.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to travel into space. Gagarin complet...
Zakir Hussain, a Punjabi tabla virtuoso, composer, producer, and film actor, was born in India in 1951.
Ustad Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla expert, composer, drummer, music producer, and film actor who was born on March 9, 1951. He is the eldest son of Ustad Allah...
Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and diplomat, was born in London in 1956.
Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is a former Indian international diplomat, politician, writer, and public intellectual who has served as a Member of Parliament,...
Naveen Jindal, an Indian entrepreneur and former Member of Parliament, was born in 1970.
Naveen Jindal, born March 9, 1970, is an Indian billionaire industrialist and former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing Kurukshetra, Haryana in the 14th ...
Darsheel Safary, an Indian television actor, was born in 1997.
Darsheel Safary, born March 9, 1997, is an Indian actor who has appeared in Hindi films and on television. Safary made his film debut as a student with a learning ...
Oscar Isaac, a French Guatemalan-American actor, was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1979.
Oscar Isaac, who was born on March 9, 1979, is a well-known American actor. In 2006, he played Saint Joseph, Mary's husband, in The Nativity Story. He also pla...
Parthiv Patel, an Indian cricket wicketkeeper, was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India in 1985.
Parthiv Ajay Patel, born 9 March 1985, is a former Indian professional cricketer and wicketkeeper-batsman who played for the Indian national side. He is a left-han...
Devika Rani Chaudhuri, an Indian actress renowned as the "First Lady of Indian Cinema," died in 1994.
Devika Rani Chaudhuri, known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She was born on March 30, 1908, and d...
Joy Mukherjee, an Indian performer, died in 2012.
Joy Mukherjee was an Indian cinema actor and director who lived from February 24, 1939 until March 9, 2012. He was dubbed the "heart throb of the 1960s and 19...
Madhavrao Scindia, an Indian politician and minister of the Indian National Congress, was born in 1945.
Madhavrao Jivajirao Scindia lived from March 10, 1945 through September 30, 2001. He was an Indian politician and a minister in the Indian National Congress's ...
Omar Abdullah, the 11th and youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in 1970.
Omar Abdullah, born 10 March 1970, is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. On 5 January 2009, he became the 11th and youngest Chief...
Chuck Norris, an American martial arts actor, was born in Ryan, Oklahoma in 1940.
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris, born March 10, 1940, is a martial artist and actor from the United States. He holds black belts in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu ...
Osama bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda, was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1957.
Osama bin Laden, also known as Usama bin Ladin, was a Saudi Arabian terrorist and the founder of the Pan-Islamic militant group al-Qaeda. He was born on March 10, ...
Prince Edward, Prince of Britain and son of Elizabeth II, was born in Buckingham Palace, London, in 1964.
The youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, was born on March 10, 1964. He is the 14th in line to...
Carrie Underwood, an American country singer, was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1983.
Carrie Marie Underwood, born March 10, 1983, is a singer and songwriter from the United States. She became well-known after winning the fourth season of American I...
Olivia Wilde, an American actress, was born in 1984.
Olivia Wilde is an American actress and filmmaker who was born on March 10, 1984. She starred in the movie Tron: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), The In...
In 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 kilometres east of Sendai, Japan, creating a tsunami and the second worst nuclear catastrophe in history at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Japan endured the biggest earthquake in recorded history on March 11, 2011. The earthquake occurred 130 kilometres east of Sendai, the main city in the Tohoku regi...
Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda State, was born in 1863.
Sayajirao Gaekwad III, born Shrimant Gopalrao Gaekwad, reigned as Maharaja of Baroda Realm from 1875 to 1939 and is famous for restructuring much of his state thro...
Mohit Chauhan, a playback singer noted for his work in Bollywood, Tollywood, and Kollywood films, was born in 1966.
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian playback vocalist best known for his performances in Hindi cinema. He was born on March 11, 1966. He was a member of the Silk Road band....
Poonam Pandey, an Indian model and bollywood cinema actor, was born in 1991.
Poonam Pandey is an Indian actress and model who is well-known for being one of the most divisive figures in the Indian film industry. Poonam Pandey was born in De...
Sambhaji Bhosale, the second emperor of the Maratha state, died in 1689.
Sambhaji Bhosale, who reigned from 1681 to 1689 and lived from 14 May 1657 to 11 March 1689, was the second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire. He was Shivaji's...
Coca-Cola is initially offered in bottles in a confectionery store in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894.
Coca-Cola was initially offered in bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1894. Local shop owner Joseph A. Biedenharm bottle soda water in bottles he had on hand, w...
Falguni Pathak, an Indian singer, was born in 1964.
Falguni Pathak, often known as the Indian Madonna, is a Mumbai-based Indian folk music singer, performer, and composer. She composes music that is mainly based on ...
Mauritius declares independence from Britain in 1968.
Mauritius proclaims independence from Britain on March 12, although Britain's Queen Elizabeth II remains head of state. Mauritius gained independence within th...
Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930.
Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement on March 12, 1930, with his well-known Dandi March. On April 6, Gandhi Ji arrived at Dandi, took up a handful of sa...
Atif Aslam, a Pakistani pop singer, was born in Wazirabad in 1983.
Muhammad Atif Aslam is a playback singer, songwriter, composer, and actor from Pakistan. He is most recognised in the Pakistani and Indian cinema industry for his ...
Shreya Ghoshal, a popular Indian playback singer, was born in 1980
Shreya Ghoshal, often known as Shreya Ghosal, is a playback singer from India. She sang in Bollywood, regional films, and Indian soap operas such as Kasturi. She h...
Varun Gandhi, an Indian politician and Lok Sabha member, was born in 1980.
Feroze Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician and a third-term Lok Sabha member representing the Pilibhit seat. He is also a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and...
In retaliation for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Indian freedom fighter Udham Singh killed Michael O'dyer in 1940.
From 1913 until 1919, Michael O'Dwyer served as the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India. When he was governor of Punjab, the Jallianwala Bagh Massac...
Pablo Picasso marries his model Jacqueline Rocque in 1961.
Picasso met Jacqueline Roque at the Madoura Pottery in 1953, where he was working on his ceramics. Following her divorce, she married Picasso for the second time i...
Nimrat Kaur, an Indian actress, was born in 1982.
Nimrat Kaur is a Bollywood actress. She was born in Pilani, Rajasthan, India on March 13, 1982. Nimrat Kaur has appeared in films in Bollywood, Telugu, and Tamil. ...
Alam Ara was released in 1931. It was directed by Ardeshir Irani and was the first Indian sound picture.
Alam Ara was released on March 14, 1931, and did well at the box office. The performance and songs received the most attention from critics, with some criticising ...
Today, Sonia Gandhi became the first female President of the Congress in 1998.
Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Maino is an Indian politician who was born on December 9, 1946. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a large politic...
Aamir Khan, an Indian Bollywood actor, filmmaker, and talk show presenter, was born in Mumbai, India in 1965.
Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan (born 14 March 1965) is a Hindi film actor, film director, and producer. Khan has established himself as one of the most famous and imp...
Farida Jalal, an Indian actress, was born in 1949.
Farida Jalal, who was born on march 14, 1949, is an Indian actress best known for her work in Hindi cinema. Jalal featured in approximately 200 films over his near...
Rohit Shetty, an Indian film director and producer best known for his action films, was born in 1973.
Rohit Shetty (born 14 March 1974) is a Hindi film director, producer, and television personality from India. He is well known for developing the film franchises Go...
Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel winner, was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879.
Albert Einstein, born March 14 1879, was a theoretical physicist of German origin who is largely regarded as one of the greatest physicists. Einstein is most recog...
Stephen Curry, an American basketball guard, was born in Akron, Ohio in 1988.
Stephen Curry, born March 14, 1988, is an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors (NBA). Curry,...
Karl Marx, a German philosopher, died in 1883 at the age of 64.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, critic of political economics, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary w...
Stephen Hawking, an English scientist, died in 2018 at the age of 76.
Stephen William Hawking, who lived from 8 January 1942 to 14 March 2018, was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was the director of rese...
