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Sir Sean Connery, a Scottish actor and producer, died in 2020 at the age of 90.
Sir Sean Connery, a renowned actor known for his role in James Bond took his last breath on October 31st at the age of 90. He dies peacefully in his sleep in Bahma...
The Statue of Unity, the world's largest statue of Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was unveiled in Gujarat state in 2018 at a height of 182 meters.
The world's highest statue, the Statue of Unity, is dedicated to visionary Indian statesman Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It was formally revealed on October 31, 2...
Rajiv Gandhi becomes India's sixth Prime Minister in 1984, succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi, who was killed.
Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India, and possibly one of the world's youngest elected heads of government, at the age of 40. His mother, ...
In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is killed at her residence in New Delhi by her bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh.
Indira Gandhi, India's prime minister, is killed by two of her own bodyguards in New Delhi. Sikhs Beant Singh and Satwant Singh opened fire on Gandhi as she he...
Laura Aime, a Ted Bundy victim, goes missing in Utah in 1974.
Laura Ann Aime was at a Halloween party with friends on October 31st, 1974. The 17-year-old left the gathering by herself later that night. This was the final time...
Vallabhbhai Patel, an Indian independence warrior and statesman, was born in Gujarat, India, in 1875.
Vallabhbhai Patel, full name Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, byname Sardar Patel, was an Indian barrister and statesman who was a leader of the Indian National Congr...
V. V. S. Laxman, an Indian cricket player, was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, in 1974.
Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman, often known as VVS Laxman, is a former Indian cricketer who was born in Hyderabad on November 1, 1974. He was a right-handed batter...
Aishwarya Rai, an Indian actress and beauty queen, was born in Mangaluru, India, in 1973.
Aishwarya Rai, the gorgeous beauty of Bollywood, is famed for setting new beauty standards. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who was born on November 1, 1973, rose to promi...
Tim Cook, Apple's current CEO, was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1960.
Tim Cook, an American corporate entrepreneur and engineer, has been Apple's CEO since August 2011. Tim Cook was born Timothy D. Cook on November 1, 1960, in th...
The 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival saw the world premiere of James Cameron's "Titanic," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The film is based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio feature in it. The two actors play characters from different socioe...
In 1966, the Indian state of Haryana was formed from Punjab, and the territory of Chandigarh was established.
Haryana was formed on November 1, 1966, as a result of the division of the former state of Punjab into two separate states: Punjab, which spoke Punjabi, and Haryan...
Today! Delhi becomes a union territory of India in 1956.
On November 1st, another chapter was added to the golden history of the capital of India, i.e. Delhi. That chapter made the capital of India. Delhi, a Union Territ...
The Indian state of Mysore is renamed Karnataka in 1973 to represent all of Karunadu's territories.
Former Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs is credited with renaming Mysore State Karnataka on November 1, 1973; however, historians claim that the term 'Karnataka&#...
Today! Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, and Haryana are created as Indian states in 1956.
On November 1, 1956, the states of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu observed formation day, while D...
India takes over management of four French Indian colonies in 1954.
In 1948, France and India agreed that the inhabitants of France's Indian possessions would choose their political future. French India was not de jure united w...
Suzuki and Maejima, Japanese navy staff officers, arrive at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The Japanese ship Taiyo Maru landed at Honolulu in November 1941, carrying 340 passengers, including Suguru Suzuki, the Japanese Imperial Navy's youngest lieut...
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk seizes Constantinople from Mehmed VI in 1922, establishing the Republic of Turkey and bringing the Ottoman Empire to an end.
The occupations of Constantinople and Smyrna galvanized the Turkish national movement, which eventually triumphed in the Turkish War of Independence. On November 1...
After the demise of Alexander III in 1894, Nicholas II becomes the next Tsar of Russia.
On November 1, 1894, Nicolas II succeeded his father Alexander III as Tsar, and on May 26, 1896, he was crowned Tsar in Moscow. April 1894, Nikolay Aleksandrovich ...
On or around this day in 1348, the Black Death arrives in London.
Black death struck London in November 1348 and spread all the way up the coast of East Anglia early in the new year. It had ravaged Wales and the Midlands by sprin...
Today, in Pune, India, Nizari Imam Aga Khan III marries his first cousin Shahzadi Begum in 1896.
Khan married his first cousin Shahzadi Begum at Pune, India on November 2, 1896. In 1908, after their divorce, he married Cleope Teresa Magliano. Prince Aly Khan a...
Today, at the age of 62, Ngô nh Dim, President and autocratic leader of South Vietnam, was killed in a coup.
Ngo Dinh Nhu was South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and main political adviser. Nhu commanded the ARVN special forces and the Personali...
Today, in 1950, Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw dies at the age of 94.
In 1876, he relocated to London, where he continued to write but struggled financially. In 1895, he was hired as a theatrical critic for the Saturday Review and be...
Today, Amar Bose, an American entrepreneur and professor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1929.
Amar Gopal Bose was an Indian-American engineer, subcontractor, and the creator of the world-famous Bose Corporation. In Pennsylvania, he was born to a Bengali fat...
David Lawrence Schwimmer, an American actor, comedian, director, and producer, was born on November 2, 1966.
David Lawrence Schwimmer, an American actor, comedian, director, and producer, was born on November 2, 1966. He rose to fame by playing Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, for which he was nominated...
Today, Shah Rukh Khan, an Indian actor, producer, and television personality, was born in New Delhi, India in 1965.
Shah Rukh Khan was born in Delhi, India on November 2, 1965. He is an award-winning Indian film actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as a film producer and ...
Today, Aga Khan III, a Shia Imam who was a founder of the All-India Muslim League and subsequently President of the League of Nations, was born in Karachi, British India, in 1877.
Aga Khan III, Sultan Sir Muhammad Shah, was born in Karachi on November 2, 1877. He succeeded his father, Aga Khan II, as imam when he was eight years old. Under h...
Today, in 1755, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, who is said to have said "let them eat cake," was born in Vienna, Austria.
Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 2, 1755. Marie Antoinette was the 15th and final child of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman E...
Today, Howard Hughes flies the "Spruce Goose," a massive wooden airplane, for the first and only time in 1947.
The Hughes Flying Boat, once the biggest aircraft ever built, is flown on its first and only flight by creator Howard Hughes. The gigantic wooden aircraft, built o...
Today, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 in 1957, with space dog Laika, a mostly-Siberian husky, onboard, becoming the first animal in orbit.
On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union astonished the world by launching Sputnik 2. Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth, was aboard the tiny satellite. Laika, ho...
Chevrolet officially joins the automotive market in 1911, competing with the Ford Model T.
Chevrolet, sometimes known informally as Chevy and formally as the Chevrolet Subsidiary of General Motors Company, is an American vehicle division of the American ...
Today, The Times of India, the world's most widely read English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, was launched in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce Today.
The daily was formed in 1838 in Mumbai (then Bombay) under the British Raj to serve the British citizens of western India, after Lord Metcalfe's Act of 1835, w...
Kendall Jenner, an American model and television personality, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1995.
Kendall Nicole Jenner was born in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 1995, to Kris and Olympic champion Bruce Jenner. Kendall Jenner is a fashion model, Instag...
Today is 1933. Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and Nobel laureate who was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
Sen was born on November 3, 1933, in West Bengal, India, to a well-respected and prosperous family. Amartya Sen is an Indian economist who won the Nobel Prize in E...
Today, Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, becoming the first African-American to do so, beating Republican contender John McCain.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona on November 4, 2008, to become the 44th President of the United States and the first Afric...
Today, Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt in 1922.
A team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter began excavating Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings on November 4, 1922. Tutankhamun, also ...
Matthew McConaughey, an American actor, was born today in Uvalde, Texas, in 1969.
Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, on November 4, 1969. He was an athlete from an early age, participating in golf and tennis at Longview High Sc...
Tabu [Tabassum Hashmi], an Indian actress, was born today in Hyderabad, India, in 1972.
Tabu was born on November 4, 1971 (birthday, dob) in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her current age is 47 years old. Tabu is a well-known Indian actress. She is most...
Shakuntala Devi, an Indian writer and mental calculator known as the "Human Computer," was born today in Bangalore, Mysore, British India, in 1929.
Shakuntala Devi was born on November 4, 1929, in Bangalore to a typical Kannada Brahmin family. Unlike the rest of her family, who were priests, her father worked in a circus as a tightrope walker,...
Today, in Springfield, Illinois, American socialite Mary Todd marries Illinois Congressman and lawyer Abraham Lincoln in 1842.
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Anne Todd, a Kentucky native, on November 4, 1842, at her sister's house in Springfield, Illinois. Mary Todd, nicknamed Molly, was...
Chittaranjan Das, an Indian lawyer and politician who founded the Swaraj Party, was born in Bikrampur, British India, in 1869.
Chittranjan Das, popularly known as Deshbandhu, was an Indian politician, a prominent lawyer, an activist of the Indian National Movement, and the founder of the S...
Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer, star batsman, and captain of India, was born in Delhi, India in 1988.
Virat Kohli, the current captain of Indian cricket team was born on November 5th in the year 1968. As a right-handed batsman, he represents Delhi in domestic crick...
Tilda Swinton, a British actress, was born in London, England in 1960.
Tilda Swinton is an Oscar-winning British actress known for her roles in arthouse films as well as acclaimed performances in mainstream films such as 'Michael ...
Vivien Leigh, an English actress, was born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, India, in 1913.
Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India on November 5, 1913, to a Yorkshire stockbroker. She was educated in convents throughout England and Europe, and her sch...
In the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556, Hindu Emperor of North India Hem Chandra Vikramaditya is defeated by Mughal Emperor Akbar's army, who capture and eventually behead Hem Chandra.
On November 5, 1556, the Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly known as Hemu, the Hindu king who rul...
Today! Akbar succeeds his father Humayun as Sultan of Delhi in 1556.
The Mughal Empire spanned nearly one million square kilometres at the time of Akbar's death in 1556. Then, on November 5,1556, Humayun succeeded his father as ...
Bryan Adams, a Canadian singer, was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1959.
Bryan Adams, a fantastic Canadian musician, was born on November 5th, 1959 in Kingston, Ontario. Young Bryan dropped out of school at the age of 15 and began perfo...
Sanjeev Kumar aka Harihar Jariwala, an Indian Bollywood actor, died of a heart attack in 1985 at the age of 47.
Sanjeev Kumar, a talented Bollywood actor, was born in 1938 as Harihar Jariwala in a Gujrati family. He was definitely a multitalented actor, since he played a var...
Emma Stone, an American actress, was born in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1988.
Emma Stone is an Academy Award-winning actress who has appeared in films such as 'The Help,' 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' 'The Amazing Spider-Man,...
In 2016, the Indian government declared Delhi's air pollution levels to be an emergency, halting schools and construction sites.
The Indian government has declared extreme levels of harmful air pollution in Delhi a "emergency scenario," with authorities announcing a plan to tempora...
MK Gandhi was detained in South Africa in 1913 for spearheading an Indian miners' march.
Gandhi was arrested while leading a march on November 6, 1913, that included 127 women, 57 children, and 2037 men. He was freed on bond, returned to the march, and...
Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected as the 16th President of the United States of America in 1860.
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to do so. Des...
Steve McQueen, the American actor known as "The King of Cool" during the 1960s, dies of a heart attack following surgery at the age of 50 in 1980.
Steve McQueen was a renowned and successful film actor during the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in films such as 'The Great Escape,' 'Bullitt,' and ...
Anushka Shetty, an Indian film actress, was born in Puttur, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India in 1981.
Anushka Shetty is a well-known Indian actress, model, and former yoga teacher who was born on November 7, 1981, in Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India, as S...
David Guetta, a French composer, DJ, and record producer, was born in Paris, France in 1967.
David Guetta is a disc jockey who was born in Paris on November 7, 1967. At the age of 13, he began mixing his first record. Five years later, he demonstrated his ...
Marie Curie, the Polish-French physicist who discovered radium and the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867.
Maria Sklodowska, later known as Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. (modern-day Poland). Curie was the youngest of five siblings, the others bein...
Kamal Haasan, an Indian actor, was born in Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, in 1954.
Kamal Haasan was born in a Tamil Iyengar household on November 7, 1954, to D. Srinivasan, a lawyer and independence fighter, and Rajalakshmi, a housewife. Parthasa...
In Tiruchirappalli, India, in 1888, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist who earned the Nobel Prize in 1930 for light scattering, was born.
On November 7, 1888, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in Tiruchirappalli, Southern India. His father was a mathematics and physics instructor, therefore he wa...
Bipin Chandra Pal, an Indian patriot and independence warrior, was born in Habiganj, Sylhet area, India, in 1858.
Bipin Chandra Pal was born on November 7, 1858, in Poil village, Syllhet district, Bangladesh. He was born into a prosperous Hindu Vaishnavite family. Ramchandra P...
K. R. Narayanan, India's 10th President, died in 2005 at the age of 85.
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was appointed vice president of India in 1992 and elected president in 1997. Narayanan was born on February 4, 1921, to a destitute Dalit ...
John Milton, the English poet and puritan best known for Paradise Lost, dies at the age of 65 in 1674.
John Milton is most known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, which is often recognized as the finest epic poem ever written in English. It established his status as ...
Gordon Ramsay, a British chef and reality television star, was born in Johnstone, Scotland in 1966.
Gordon James Ramsay was born on November 8, 1966, in Johnstone, Scotland, and reared in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, when his family relocated there when he was f...
Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1847.
Abraham Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland, to Abraham Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker. He was one of seven children, and h...
Vlad III the Impaler, a Wallachian prince, was born in SighiÅŸoara, Transylvania, Romania in 1431.
Vlad III - afterwards known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad TepeÅŸ - was born in 1431 at the Sighisoara Citadel, the son of Vlad II Dracul, who was the illegitimate so...
During an unannounced live broadcast address in 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the demonetization of all 500 and 1,000 banknotes, scrapping 86 percent of the notes in circulation in a fight against corruption.
On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on national television and said that all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 high-value notes will become worthless by midni...
In 2019, the Kartarpur corridor will open, allowing Sikh pilgrims from India to visit the holy shrine of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without requiring a visa.
Ahead of Guru Nanak's 550th Prakash Purab celebrations, the Kartarpur corridor, which connects Sri Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nanak in India's Punjab with Gurd...
In 2019, India's Supreme Court finds in favor of Hindus over Muslims in a dispute over who has the claim to the Ayodhya holy site.
The 2.77 acres, previously claimed by both Hindus and Muslims, were the site of a 16th century mosque was demolished by right-wing mobs to unearth and find a...
In the year 1907 On his birthday, King Edward VII receives the Cullinan Diamond, the biggest diamond ever unearthed.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever discovered, weighing 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g) (21.9 ounces) and discovered on January 26, 1905...
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte stages a coup and ascends to the position of dictator of France under the title of First Consul.
Napoleon was a member of a party that successfully ousted the French Directory in November 1799, in an incident known as the coup of 18 Brumaire. The Directory was...
Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-American actress and inventor, was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1914.
On November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born. She was discovered as a youngster by an Austrian cinema director and rose to worldwide ...
