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Charlie Cox is an English actor who was born in London.
Charlie Thomas Cox was born on 15 December 1982 in London, England, parents Patricia C. A. and publisher Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox. He is descended from numero...
Gustave Eiffel, the French engineer and architect responsible for the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, was born in Dijon, France in 1832.
Eiffel, a trained engineer, formed and built a firm specialising in metal structural construction, the crowning result of which was the Eiffel Tower. He spent the ...
Protests over India's new citizenship policy erupt in various cities in 2019, killing at least 5 non-protesters.
A large demonstration has erupted in India's capital, Delhi, as outrage over a citizenship bill sweeps the country. Stone-throwing mobs confronted police force...
Walt Disney, an American animator and producer, dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in 1966.
Disney's involvement in Disney World came to an end in late 1966, when he was diagnosed with lung cancer in his left lung, the result of a lifetime practise of...
Vallabhbhai Patel, an Indian freedom warrior and politician, died in 1952 at the age of 75.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a leader of the Indian National Congress till his death. Many historians, like Ramchandra Guha, find it hilarious that Patel is being ...
Actor and filmmaker George Clooney marries actress Talia Balsam in Las Vegas in 1989.
George Clooney and Talia Balsam, an actor and infamous prankster, were married from 1989 until 1993. The divorce took 25 months, which was 5 months longer than the...
In Beverly Hills, California, actor Sylvester Stallone marries actress Brigitte Nielsen in 1985.
During the filming of Rocky IV, Nielsen became engaged to actor Sylvester Stallone. They married on December 15, 1985, in the Beverly Hills, California home of pro...
PV Sindhu, the current world champion, became the first and only Indian to win the BWF World Tour finals On December 16, 2018.
PV Sindhu, the current world champion, became the first and only Indian to win the BWF World Tour finals On December 16, 2018.
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The Taj Mahal Palace is a heritage, five-star, opulent hotel in Mumbai's Colaba it was opened on December 16, 1903.
The Taj Mahal Palace is a heritage, five-star, opulent hotel in Mumbai's Colaba neighbourhood, Maharashtra, India, located close to the Gateway of India. It wa...
Colonel Harland Sanders, the American inventor of Kentucky Fried Chicken, died in 1980 at the age of 90.
Colonel Harland David Sanders is an American businessman best known for inventing the fast food chicken restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (commonly known as KFC) a...
Lei Jun, a Chinese businessman and the founder of Xiaomi Inc, was born in Xiantao, Hubei, in 1969.
Lei Jun (born December 16, 1969 in Xiantao, Hubei Province, China) is a Chinese business leader who founded Xiaomi Corp. In 2010 and served as its chairman and CEO...
In 2014, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan terrorists assault an Army Public School in Pakistan, killing 145 people.
Six shooters linked with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) carried out a terrorist assault on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014....
Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone in 1913, earning $150 per week.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16th, 1889, in London, England. His father was a skilled vocalist and actor, and his mother, who went by the stage name L...
1971 East Vijay Diwas After India's army takes Dacca and 93,000 West Pakistani forces surrender, Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan is acknowledged globally.
The 16th of December is an important day for India, as well as its neighbours Bangladesh and Pakistan. In 1971, India defeated Pakistan in a war that resulted in t...
On December 17, 1933, Lala Amarnath made history by scoring India's first-ever Test century against England.
On December 17, 1933, Lala Amarnath made history by scoring India's first-ever Test century against England. Amarnath, who had a score of 118, was also the fir...
The simpsons debuted as a Christmas special on December 17, 1989,
The Tracy Ullman Show, a variety show on the Fox Broadcasting Company, first aired a cartoon short featuring The Simpsons in 1987. It debuted as a Christmas special on December 17, 1989, and after ...
Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer and pianist, was born on December 17, 1770.
Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer and pianist, was born on December 17, 1770. Beethoven is still regarded as one of the most revered musicians in Western mus...
In 1971, In Kashmir, India and Pakistan have agreed to a cease-fire.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the line of control established by the December 17, 1971 cease-fire should be observed by all parties without regard to each side's ackno...
Milla Jovovich, a Russian-born American actress, was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, in 1975.
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975, in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Serbian doctor, Bogdan Jovovich, and a Russian actress, Galina...
Pope Francis, Catholic Pope (2013-), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1936, the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first non-European pope since Syrian Gregory III in 741.
Pope Francis is Rome's 266th Bishop. Francis was chosen Pope on March 13, 2013, to succeed Benedict XVI, who resigned two weeks earlier. Poverty, compassion, a...
John Abraham, an Indian actor, was born in 1972.
John Abraham is a Mumbai, Maharashtra-born Indian actor who was born on December 17, 1972. John was born in Malaysia to a Malayali father and a Parsi mother. His f...
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's supreme leader from 1994 to 2011, died of a suspected heart attack in 2011 at the age of 70.
According to North Korean press reports, Kim Jong-il died around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 17. (6:30 Friday evening Washington time). His death was broadcast...
Céline Dion marries her manager Rene Angelil in Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada in 1994.
Céline Dion, a Canadian singer, was born on March 30, 1968. Her vocals are known for being both strong and technically adept. She is the best-selling C...
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former Prime Minister, marries Asif Ali Zardari in 1987.
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, respectively, between 1988 a...
Billie Eilish, an American singer-songwriter, was born in Los Angeles, California in 2001.
Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter. Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer and songwriter who was born on December 18, 2001. She rose to prom...
Katie Holmes, an American actress, was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1978.
Kate Noelle Holmes is an actress, director, and producer from the United States. She rose to prominence on the television series Dawson's Creek (1998–200...
Steven Spielberg, an American director, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946.
Steven Allan Spielberg, an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, was born on December 18, 1946. He started his career in the New Hollywood era and is...
Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union's Dictator and General Secretary, was born in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire, in 1878.
On December 18, 1878, he was born in Gori, Georgia. Losif Jughashvili was his birth name. Stalin's parents were impoverished, and he had a difficult upbringing...
Brad Pitt, an American actor and producer, was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1963.
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to truck company owner William Alvin and his wife, Jane Etta, a school counsellor. He eve...
Joni Flynn, an Indian actress, was born in Assam, India in 1949.
Joni Flynn was born in Assam, India on December 18, 1949. She has appeared in films such as Monty Python's Holy Grail, Octopussy, and Felicity.
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Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO, a cricket coach, commentator, and former player from Australia, was born on December 19, 1974.
Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO, a cricket coach, commentator, and former player from Australia, was born on December 19, 1974. The most successful captain in the history...
The $200 million epic "Titanic" by James Cameron premiered in American theatres on December 19, 1997.
The $200 million epic "Titanic" by James Cameron premiered in American theatres on December 19, 1997. The movie went on to earn more than $1.8 billion wo...
Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, pledging to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
On December 19, 1984, Thatcher and Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the formal Sino-British Joint Declaration at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. That month, on ...
In 1961, India liberates Goa and two other Portuguese colonies.
Unlike the Indian liberation war against the British, in which several heroes rose to oppose British rule, the Goan freedom movement was openly short and more of a...
The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 forces Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to leave.
Following China's invasion of Tibet in 1950, His Holiness was called upon to take complete political control. He visited Beijing in 1954 and met with Mao Zedon...
Jake Gyllenhaal, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Jake Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor who was born on December 19, 1980. He is the son of filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal and author Naomi Foner; his older si...
Pratibha Patil, the first female President of India and Governor of Rajasthan, was born in Nadgaon, India, in 1934.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born December 19, 1934) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the country's 12th president between 2007 and 2012. Patil, a...
Emily Bronte, an English author, dies of TB at the age of 30 in 1848.
Emily Jane Bronte was an English author and poet best known for her one and only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is today regarded as a classic of English lit...
In 1995, Queen Elizabeth requests a divorce from Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Despite their disagreements, Princess Diana intended to remain married to Prince Charles for the rest of her life. Something changed, however, when the queen asked...
Poet Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1895.
Robert Lee Frost was a poet from the United States. Before being published in the United States, his work was first published in England. Frost, who was known for ...
Ashley Cole, an English football coach and former player who was born on December 20, 1980
Ashley Cole, an English football coach and former player who was born on December 20, 1980, is presently the first-team coach at Premier League team Everton. He wa...
Donald Trump marries former model Marla Maples at the Trump Plaza Hotel in 1993.
According to Maples, the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting on December 7, 1993, prompted Trump to rethink his life and propose to her. On December 20, 1993, the ...
Richard Branson marries Joan Templeman in the British Virgin Islands in 1989.
The couple married in 1989 on Branson's Necker Island, a 74-acre island in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of the British Virgin Islands. In 2016, the pair cel...
Sacagawea, the Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies at the age of 24 in 1812.
Sacagawea served as an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's westward voyage from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Sacagawe...
Jonah Hill, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1983.
Jonah Hill Feldstein, better known as Jonah Hill, is a multi-talented actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is well recognised for his depiction of humor...
In Menlo Park, California, Thomas Edison secretly tested incandescent light in 1879.
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp, or incandescent light globe is a type of electric light that uses a wire filament that is heated until it lights. To...
The first freight train operates in Roorkee, India, in 1851.
In 1851, the Solani Aqueduct Railway was built in Roorkee. It was hauled by the Thomason steam locomotive, named after a British officer-in-charge of that name. Th...
Radium is discovered by scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
Marie and Pierre Curie successfully extract radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their Paris laboratory on December 20, 1902. In their pitchble...
The first manned Moon mission, Apollo 8, was launched in 1968, with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders aboard.
Three NASA astronauts set off on a voyage that would take them "Round the Moon and Back" 50 years ago. The performance of the command and service modules...
Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first YouTube video to exceed one billion views in 2012.
On December 21, 2012, South Korean musician Psy's "Gangnam Style" became the first music video to exceed 1 billion views on YouTube. When it surpasse...
Emmanuel Macron, French politician and President of France, was born in Amiens, France, in 1977.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron born December 21, 1977 he is a French politician who has been the country's president since May 14, 201...
Samuel L. Jackson, an American actor, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948.
Samuel L. Jackson is a legendary Hollywood actor who has acted in over 100 films over his career. Jackson, who was abandoned by his father as a youngster, overcame...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in 1940.
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, is a well-known author of short tales and novels. He is largely recognised as one of the best writers to emerge from American soil i...
Autar Singh Paintal, an Indian medical scientist, died in 2004 at the age of 79.
The authentic men in whom nature has succeeded are the great ones. They are not extraordinary – they are in the proper sequence, as they should be. Autar Sin...
Elton John, a British pop pianist and singer, marries Canadian filmmaker David Furnish in 2014.
According to rumours, Elton John will marry his companion of more than 20 years this weekend in England. Several news outlets reported that the 67-year-old singer ...
Edmund Hillary marries June Mulgrew in 1989.
Ed Hillary and June Mulgrew tour Nepal's Solu Khumbu in 1984. In the late 1980s, Hillary and Mulgrew resided throughout India when Hillary was the New Zealand ...
Captain James Cook, a British explorer, marries Elizabeth Batts in 1762.
On December 21, 1762, at St Margaret's Church in Barking. Elizabeth was the daughter of the innkeeper of The Bell at Wapping, and James Cook resided further up...
On December 22, 1998, Zinedine Zidane received the 1998 Ballon d'Or
On December 22, 1998, Zinedine Zidane received the 1998 Ballon d'Or, which is given annually to the finest football player in Europe as determined by a jury of sports writers from UEFA member n...
Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru of Sikhism, the creator and General of Khalsa, a social reformist and poet, was born in Patna Sahib, India, in 1666.
Guru Gobind Singh, also known as Gobind Rai, was the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet, and philosopher who was born on December 22, 1666. At the ...
Kunal Nayyar, the Indian actor from "The Big Bang Theory," married Miss India 2006 winner Neha Kapur in New Delhi, India in 2011.
Kunal Nayyar is an Indian actor of English origin. He played Raj Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and Vijay on the Nickelodeon animated series...
Jimmy Fallon, a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and "Tonight Show" host, married Hollywood producer Nancy Juvonen on Necker Island in the Caribbean in 2007.
James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is a comedian, television host, and actor from the United States. He is most known for his work on Saturday Night Liv...
Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle in Scotland in 2000.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, born August 16, 1958, is a singer-songwriter and actor from the United States. She is widely regarded as one of the most important individu...
Samuel Beckett, an Irish-French writer, died in 1989 at the age of 83.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was a novelist, dramatist, short storey writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator fro...
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who discovered number theory, was born in Erode, British India, in 1887.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy who lived in India. He made significant contributions to number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continuing ...
Tsunami strikes Indonesia's Sunda Strait in 2018, killing over 400 people as a portion of the Anak Krakatoa volcano collapses into the sea.
The 2018 Sunda strait tsunami struck on 22 December 2018 at about 21:38 local time, when major portions of Anak Krakatoa's southwestern flank crashed onto its ...
Neeraj Chopra, an Indian athlete, was born in Panipat, Haryana, India in 1997.
Neeraj Chopra VSM (born December 24, 1997) is a track and field athlete from India who competes in the javelin throw. World Athletics has him rated second in the w...
Rabindranath Tagore establishes Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1921.
Visva Bharati University, one of India's most prestigious universities, is marking its 100th anniversary of its founding. Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel laureate...
In 1912, Rash Behari Bose led the Indian revolutionary underground in Bengal and Punjab in an attempt to kill Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge by putting a handmade bomb into the Viceroy's Howdah during a ceremonial parade in Delhi.
On December 23, 1912, a bomb was hurled at Viceroy Lord Hardinge as his procession left Chandni Chowk. In the attempt, the Viceroy was injured, but his Mahavat was...
After a dispute with fellow painter Paul Gauguin in 1888, Vincent van Gogh slices off his left ear with a razor and gives it to a prostitute for safekeeping.
For years, historians have been fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's ear, prompting them to devise a variety of ideas as to why the 19th century Dutch artist slice...
1902 Charan Singh, Indian politician and the fifth Prime Minister of India, was born in the British Indian district of Noorpur.
Between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980, Chaudhary Charan Singh was India's 5th Prime Minister. Historians and ordinary people alike regard to him as the "...
P. V. Narasimha Rao, the ninth Prime Minister of India, died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 83.
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (June 28, 1921 – December 23, 2004) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as India's ninth Prime Minister fro...
Tom Cruise married actress Nicole Kidman in 1990.
On the set of their film Days of Thunder, Cruise met his second wife, actress Nicole Kidman. On December 24, 1990, the pair married. Isabella Jane and Connor Anton...
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and viceroy of Cochin, dies at the age of 55 in 1524.
Vasco da Gama is primarily remembered for becoming the first person to sail from Europe to India by circumnavigating Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Da Gama landed...
Howard Hughes, an American reclusive millionaire, filmmaker, and aviator, was born in Humble, Texas in 1905.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr., born December 24, 1905, was a commercial entrepreneur, investor, record-setting aviator, engineer, film director, and philanthropist who ...
Anil Kapoor, an Indian producer and actor, was born in Bombay, India in 1959.
Anil Kapoor (born December 24, 1956) is an Indian film producer and actor who has acted in over a hundred Hindi-language films as well as international films and t...
Mohammed Rafi, an Indian actor and playback singer, was born in Kotla Sultan Singh, India, in 1925.
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian cinema playback vocalist who was born on December 24, 1924. He is regarded as one of the best and most influential Indian subcontinent ...
Matthew Arnold, an English poet and critic, was born in Laleham, England in 1822.
Matthew Arnold, born on December 24, 1822, was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as a school inspector. He was the son of Rugby School's famed hea...
