Thomas Edison, an American inventor, was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was a businessman and inventor from the United States. He invented several inventions in discipline...
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1809.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 unt...
Charles Darwin, the English biologist who developed the idea of evolution through natural selection, was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in 1809.
Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist best recognised for his contributions to evolu...
Sarojini Naidu, an Indian independence fighter and poet, was born in Hyperbad, India, in 1879.
Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay; February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949) was a poet and political activist from India. She was a significant person in In...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
On the Ides of March in 44 BC, Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius, and many other Roman senators in Rome.
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman commander and statesman who lived from 12 July 100 BC to 15 March 44 BC. Caesar was a member of the First Triumvirate and led the R...
In 1931, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were hung for their revolutionary deeds for the liberation of Bharat.
In India, March 23 is known as Shaheed Diwas, or Martyrs' Day. On this day, India's three liberation warriors, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram R...
Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the East India Company's government in India in 1857, sparking the lengthy Indian Rebellion of 1857. It is often referred to as the "First War of Independence."
On March 29, 1857, at the Barrackpore parade field outside Calcutta, 29-year-old Mangal Pandey of the 34th BNI stated his intention to revolt against his superiors...
In 1867, the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000, or about 2 cents per acre.
Alaska Purchase, the acquisition of 586,412 square miles of territory near the northern extremity of the North American continent by the United States from Russia,...
The Eiffel Tower formally opens in Paris in 1889. Built during the Exposition Universelle, it holds the record for the highest man-made tower at 300m for 41 years.
The Eiffel Structure is a wrought-iron lattice tower on Paris's Champ de Mars. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose firm planned and constructe...
Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel winner, died in 1955 at the age of 76 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who lived from 14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influe...
Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany, was born in Austria-Hungary in 1889.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He is most known for being the head of the Nazi Party and for starting the Second World War. I...
Benjamin Franklin announces the creation of bifocals in 1785.
On May 23, 1785, Benjamin Franklin revealed the creation of the bifocal eyeglass, which would forever allow libraries and the elderly to see both close-up and far ...
In 1908, Henry Ford introduces the Legendary Model T for just $825
The first production, Model T Ford is finished on October 1, 1908, at the company's Piquette Avenue facility in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford produced a...
Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC.
The Battle of Gaugamela, also known as the Battle of Arbela, took place on October 1, 331 BCE, and was the final encounter between Alexander the Great of Macedon a...
Andhra Pradesh, an Indian state, was partitioned from Madras in 1953.
Potti Sri Ramulu, a major leader of the independent Andhra movement, began an indefinite fast on October 19, 1952, seeking a separate Andhra state from Madras for ...
At the end of the Russian-Turkish War (1736-1739), the Ottoman Empire and Russia signed the Treaty of Nissa in 1739.
Treaty of Nissa, a treaty of peace was signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire on October 3rd in the year 1739 to end up the Russio-Turkish War. As per the...
During Operation Hurricane on Monte Bello Island in Australia in 1952, the United Kingdom became the world's third nuclear power.
In the year 1952, on October 3rd United Kingdome became the third country to test the nuclear weapons after United States and Soviet Union. The code named 'Hur...
Indira Gandhi was arrested in 1977 for many breaches of privilege and contempt of the House.
Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India was arrested in the year 1977, on October 4th in Delhi on the charges of corruption and misuse of authority. With h...
Abraham Lincoln delivered his first political address at the Illinois State Fair in 1854.
On October 4th in the year 1854, Abraham Lincoln delivered his first political address at Illinois State Fair. The main motive of that speech was to oppose the sla...
Michael Jordan established career highs in 3-point attempts and 3-point field goals in 1994, nearly double prior numbers.
Michael Jordan best known by his initials MJ is an former American Professional basketballer and buisnessman. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, and had won six cham...
Around 1,000 Mongol army men landed on the Japanese island of Tsushima in 1274, the first onslaught of Kublai Khan's Mongol invasion of Japan.
The Mongol invasion on Japan took place in 1274. It was when Kublai Khan sent two huge fleets from China and Korea. When Mongol departed for the invasion of Japan,...
Orville and Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" trip 38.5 km in 38.3" in 1905
October 5th marks the thirtd flyer trip. It was the first airplane that was capable of sustained and maneuverable flight. It was on 5th October 1905, when the flig...
Thomas Edison exhibited his first motion film in 1889.
Around 1889, Edison assembled a team of muckers, led by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, to work on this project. They created the Strip Kinetograph, a very early m...
The far side of the Moon was observed for the first time in 1959, thanks to the USSR's Luna 3 space mission.
The radio-controlled Luna 3 lunar program was a huge success, with 20 missions to the Moon conducted between January 1959 and October 1970. The AFA-E1 camera on th...
In 1737, a storm created 40-foot seas in Calcutta, India, killing 300,000 people.
A huge storm made landfall inside the Ganges River Delta, just south of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, early on October, 1737. With 381 mm (15 in) of rain pouring i...
Midway Games initially launched Mortal Kombat as a 2D fighting game in 1992.
Mortal Kombat, released by Midway, launched in arcades on October 8, 1992, and soon became a big coin-op sensation. Scorpion, Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, and Sonya Blad...
The Indian Air Force was founded in 1932.
Every year on October 8, India commemorates Indian Air Force Day since it was on this day in 1932 that the Indian Air Force was formally established as a supportin...
Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand at Poverty Bay in 1769.
Captain James Cook, an English sailor, saw New Zealand on October 6, 1769, and arrived at Poverty Bay two days later. He created extensive maps of the land and wro...
In 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, an atomic endeavor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the agencies that led to the Manhattan Project in 1939, when U.S. intelligence operatives reported that scientists work...
In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a women's rights and education campaigner was shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she attempted to board her school bus in the Swat area of northwest Pakistan.
A shooter shot Yousafzai as she was walking home from school on October 9, 2012. She survived and has continued to advocate for the value of education. She deliver...
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist, and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights activist, have both been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Ms Yousafza...
In 1945, a civil war broke out in China between the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party.
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, leaders of the Nationalist and Communist parties, met in 1945 for a series of negotiations on the creation of a post-war administra...
