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Chandra Shekhar Aazad, an Indian lawyer and activist (Bhim Army), was born in Ghadkauli, Uttar Pradesh, in 1986.
Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan (born 3 December 1986) is a Dalit-Bahujan rights activist from India. He is an Ambedkarite who co-founded and serves as national presiden...
Kanaka Dasa, an Indian musician and composer of Carnatic music, was born in Baada, Vijayanagara Empire, around 1509.
Kanaka Dasa was a Haridasa, a well-known Carnatic music composer, poet, philosopher, and musician. He is well-known for his keertanas and ugabhoga, which are compo...
Rajendra Prasad, Indian statesman and first President of India (1950–62), was born in Zeradai, British India, in 1884.
Rajendra Prasad, born on December 3, 1884, was an Indian independence campaigner, lawyer, academic, and, later, the country's first president, serving from 195...
Bhopal tragedy in 1984: Union Carbide pesticide facility in Bhopal, India, leaks 45 tonnes of methyl isocyanate and other poisonous substances, killing 2,259 (official number) and injuring over 500,000 (including subsequent fatalities).
The Bhopal catastrophe, also known as the Bhopal gas tragedy, occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984, at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticid...
The Indian Navy retaliates the Pakistan Navy and Karachi in 1971.
On the night of December 4/5, three missile boats, accompanied by two corvettes, assaulted Karachi, destroying the destroyer PNS Khaibar, the minesweeper Muhafiz, ...
In 1829, Britain makes "Sati" (a widow who burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) illegal in India.
On December 4, 1829, the then-Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issued the Bengal Sati Regulation, which prohibited the practice of Sati in all jurisdictions ...
Jay-Z, an American rapper and record producer, was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1969.
Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects. In 1989, he utilised rap as an escape and featured on Yo! MTV Raps. Jay-Z launched his own app...
IK Gujral, an Indian politician and former Prime Minister of India, was born in Jhelum, British India, in 1919.
Inder Kumar Gujral was born in 1919 to Avtar Narain and Pushpa Gujral in Jhelum, Pakistan. He was born into a family of independence fighters; both of his parents ...
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, an Indian politician and the eighth President of India, was born in Rajamadam, British India, in 1910.
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, born 4 December 1910, was an Indian lawyer, independence campaigner, and politician who served as a Union Minister and as India's eight...
2017 Shashi Kapoor [Balbir Raj Kapoor], a well-known Indian Bollywood actor, dies at the age of 79 from a chest illness.
Shashi Kapoor (born Balbir Raj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was a Hindi cinema actor and producer. He was nominated for four National Film Awards...
Stan Lee (24), inventor of "Spider-Man," marries in 1947. Boocock, Joan Clayton
The 69-year marriage of Stan and Joan Lee was a love tale that should never have occurred. The explanation for this is simple: she was already married to another m...
Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, political prisoner, and South African President, died of a lung illness in 2013 at the age of 95.
Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, at about 20:50 local time, at his home in Houghton, accompanied by his family, after suffering from a lengthy res...
Jayaram Jayalalitha, an Indian actress and politician who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1996 to 2016, died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Jayalalithaa was taken to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on September 22, 2016, suffering from an infection and serious dehydration. On October 12, 2016, her formal d...
Shri Aurobindo, an Indian guru and patriot, dies at the age of 78 in 1950.
Aurobindo Ghose, also known as Sri Aurobindo, is revered around the world as a brilliant scholar, national leader, and spiritual teacher. He received both his prim...
Walter Elias Disney, American animator, producer, and co-founder of Walt Disney Company, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1901.
Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Chicago neighbourhood of Hermosa, Illinois. He spent the most of his boyhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began dra...
Sikkim become an Indian protectorate in 1950.
In 1948, the Sikkim Darbar and the Government of India agreed a "Standstill Agreement" to alleviate the relationship, and a new treaty went into force. A...
In 1848, US President James K. Polk sparks the 1849 Gold Rush by certifying a gold find in California.
People had previously made false claims that they had discovered gold, thus the Gold Rush did not begin until December 1848, when President James Polk backed up th...
Brian Lara of the West Indies made his Test debut on December 6, 1990
Former Trinidadian international cricketer Brian Charles Lara is regarded as one of the game's finest batsmen. Brian Lara of the West Indies made his Test debu...
Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah, an Indian cricketer who was born on 6 December 1993
Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah, an Indian cricketer who was born on 6 December 1993, competes in all formats of the game for the Indian national side. He participates in first-class cricket and the Ind...
On Gibraltar in 1962, actor Sean Connery marries actress Diane Cilento.
Last month, the Scottish actor's tremendous career was honoured after he died at the age of 90 after a lengthy struggle with dementia. Sir Sean Connery, who pl...
B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian politician, lawyer, and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement, dies of diabetes at the age of 65 in 1956.
Ambedkar has been suffering with diabetes since 1948. Due to medicine side effects and bad eyesight, he remained bedridden from June to October 1954. During 1955, ...
Shekhar Kapur, an Indian filmmaker (Bandit Queen), was born in Laghore, British India, in 1945.
Shekhar Kapur is a film director and producer from India. He is a highly regarded director who rose to prominence with the film Bandit Queen. He received Academy A...
Hara Prasad Shastri, an Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist, and Bengali literature historian, was born in Khulna, Bengal, in 1853.
Shastri, Haraprasad was a well-known orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. Haraprasad Bhattacharya (Shastri) was born on December 6, 1853, in the hamlet of Kumira in t...
In 2017, astronomers reported the finding of a "supermassive" black hole 13 billion light-years away, 800 times larger than the Sun, in the journal "Nature."
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Eduardo Baados discovered the farthest distant supermassive black hole yet detected using Carnegie's Magellan teles...
In 1992, 300,000 people demolished the Babri Mosque in India in order to uncover an ages-old temple devoted to Lord Ram; four people were killed in the process.
The mosque stood on the location where millions of Hindus believe Lord Ram, the hero of the epic Ramayan, was born, or "janmabhoomi." Over 1.5 lakh perso...
On December 7, 2017, Ronaldo won the fifth and last Ballon d'Or award.
On December 7, 2017, Ronaldo won the fifth and last Ballon d'Or award. Simply put, Cristiano Ronaldo is the football king. The Madridista forward won the Ballon d'Or in 2017, making it two ...
Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing mission, launched in 1972, with the crew taking the iconic "blue marble" shot of the whole Earth.
Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan and his crewmates — Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans — oohed and ahhed over their home planet, poised in the blackness...
Larry Bird, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward, coach, and executive, was born in West Baden, Indiana in 1956.
Larry Bird was born in West Baden Springs, Indiana on December 7, 1956. He grew up in this settlement, which is close to the town of French Lick. Larry's fathe...
Kumar Shahani, an Indian writer and filmmaker, was born in Larkana, Sindh, in 1940.
Kumar Shahani is a well-known Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his parallel cinema features Maya Darpan, Khayal Gatha, and Kasba. Due to his co...
Pramukh Swami Maharaj, an Indian Hindu spiritual guru (BAPS), was born in Chansad, Gujarat, in 1921.
Great guru, the fifth spiritual successor in Bhagwan Swaminarayan's succession of Gunatit gurus, was born on December 7, 1921, in the hamlet of Chansad, near V...
Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen of Scotland, was born at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, in 1542.
Mary, Queen of Scots, commonly known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, reigned as Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced resignation in 1567....
The year was 1982. Nicki Minaj is a rapper and singer from Trinidad and Tobago. She was born in Saint James, Port of Spain.
Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, and songwriter. She was born Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty on December 8, 1982. Her rhyming style is noted for its live...
Sharmila Tagore, an Indian actress, was born in 1946.
Sharmila Tagore is a former Indian actress who was born on December 8, 1944. Tagore is most recognised for her contributions to Hindi and Bengali film, for which s...
Dharmendra, an Indian actor, was born in Nasrali, Punjab, British India, in 1935.
Dharam Singh Deol (born December 8, 1935), better known by his stage name Dharmendra, is an Indian actor, producer, and politician best known for his work in Hindi...
Today in 2021, Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif Got Married
Katrina and Vicky, together with their families, are scheduled to arrive on December 6 and leave on December 11. The wedding planning has been delegated to six sep...
Dia Mirza, an Indian actress, was born in Hyderabad, India in 1981.
Dia Mirza was born on December 9, 1981, in Hyderabad, India, to an interracial family of German and Bengali descent. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German graph...
Judi Dench, the British actress best known as M in the James Bond films, was born in York, England in 1934.
Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress who was born on December 9, 1934. She is regarded as a "peerless performer" with parts spanning from James...
Shatrughan Sinha, an Indian actor and politician, was born in 1946 in Patna, Bihar, British India.
Shatrughan Prasad Sinha (born July 15, 1946) is an Indian politician and actor. He served in the Lok Sabha (2009–2014, 2014–2019) and the Rajya Sabha (...
Sonia Gandhi aka Edvige Antonia Albina Maino (Antonia Maino for Short), an Indian politician of Italian origin, was born in Lusiana, Veneto, Italy, in 1946.
Sonia Gandhi aka Edvige Antonia Albina Maino is an Indian politician who was born on December 9, 1946. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a...
John Milton, an English poet and puritan, was born in London, England in 1608.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and philosopher who worked for the Commonwealth of England's Council of State and sub...
Matt Damon, star of "Bourne," married Argentine-born Luciana Barrosa in 2005 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau outside New York City Hall.
In April 2003, while filming Stuck on You in Miami, Damon met his Argentine wife, Luciana Bozán. They were engaged in September 2005 and married on December...
Rabindranath Tagore married Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage in 1883.
With his innumerable poetry, novels, plays, and songs, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), better known as Gurudev, captivated the sphere of literature. His contribut...
Ashok Kumar, an Indian actor, died from persistent asthma at the age of 90 in 2001.
Ashok Kumar died on December 10, 2001, at the age of 90, at his home in Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He died as a result of heart failure. Kumudlal Ganguly...
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist who created dynamite and organised the Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, died at the age of 63 in 1896.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel is well-known for the yearly prizes he bestows in research, literature, and ...
In the year 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. She only stayed at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley for a year. Dickinson...
C. Rajagopalachari, India's liberation warrior and the country's first Governor General, was born in Thorapalli, Madras Presidency, British India, in 1878.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, better known as Mootharignar Rajaji, was an Indian leader, writer, lawyer, and freedom campaigner who lived from 9 December 1878 to 25...
In 1930, Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light scattering, making him the first Asian and non-white person to receive the award.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist who specialised in light scattering. Using a spectrograph he in...
Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, is the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali."
Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "for his deeply sensitive, fresh, and beautiful poem, through which, with great ability, he...
In 2019, India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, paving the path for immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan's minority populations to get citizenship.
On 9 December 2019, Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah tabled the Bill in the 17th Lok Sabha, and it was approved on 10 December 2019 with 311 MPs voting in favour...
Hailee Steinfeld, an American actress and singer, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1996.
Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an actor and singer from the United States. Her breakthrough came with the western drama picture True Grit (2010), for...
Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, was born in Mayiladuthurai, India, in 1969.
Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) is a former world chess champion and Indian chess grandmaster. In 1988, he became India's first grandmaster, and he i...
Pranab Mukherjee, an Indian politician and the 13th President of India, was born in Mirati, British India, in 1935.
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian statesman who served as the country's 13th president from 2012 to 2017. Mukherjee was a top politician in the Indian Natio...
Dilip Kumar [Muhammad Yusuf Khan], the "Tragedy King" and one of the best performers in Indian film, was born in Peshawar, British India, in 1922.
Mohammed Yusuf Khan, well known by his stage name Dilip Kumar, was an Indian actor and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema from November 11, 1922 until July 7...
Ravi Shankar, a Bengali Brahmin sitar maestro and Indian classical music composer, died in 2012 at the age of 92.
Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian composer and musician best known for popularising the Indian classical instrument Sitar around the world. Shankar grew up learnin...
M.S. (Madurai Shanmukhavadivu) Subbulakshmi, the first Indian vocalist to be given the Bharat Ratna, died in 2004 at the age of 88.
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi is a name that has become synonymous with Carnatic music. This immaculate vocalist, whose voice had almost heavenly power, is ...
Yuvraj Singh, an Indian cricketer, was born in Chandigarh, India, in 1981.
Yuvraj Singh was born on December 12, 1981, parents Shabnam and Yograj Singh, both of whom were former Indian bowlers. An aggressive left-handed batter and a slugg...
Herb Dhaliwal, a Canadian politician, was born in Chiheru, Punjab, India in 1952.
Herb Dhaliwal, born on December 12, 1952, is a Canadian politician who was appointed Minister of Revenue in 1999. His height is around 5' 11", and she was...
Rajinikanth, aka Shivaji Rao Gaekwa, was born in Bangalore, India in 1950.
Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, better known as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor best recognised for his work in Tamil film. In addition to performing, he has produced a few f...
Sharad Pawar, an Indian politician, was born in 1940 in Baramati, Bombay Presidency, British India.
Sharad Govindrao Pawar, an Indian politician, was born on December 12, 1940. On three times, he has served as Maharashtra's Chief Minister. He has served in th...
Delhi succeeds Calcutta as India's capital in 1911.
On February 13, 86 years ago, New Delhi became the power capital of undivided India, following a 20-year wait. On December 12, 1911, during the New Delhi durbar, K...
