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Saina Nehwal, a professional badminton singles player, was born in 1990.
On March 17, 1990, Saina Nehwal was born. She is an Indian politician and professional badminton player who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was a former...
Kurt Russell, actor, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1951.
Kurt Russell is one of the few persons in Hollywood who has successfully transitioned from a child actor to an acknowledged 'A' list movie star, and he is ...
Albert Einstein completes his scientific article explaining his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the pillars of modern physics, in 1905.
Albert Einstein completed a scientific study that will revolutionise the world one hundred years ago today. His startling insight into the nature of light would co...
Manohar Aich, the first Indian to win any Mr. Universe title, was born in 1912.
Manohar Aich was an Indian bodybuilder who lived from 17 March 1912 until 5 June 2016. He was the second Indian to win a Mr. Universe title (after Monotosh Roy in ...
Tej Singh Prabhakar, the last reigning Maharaja of Alwar, was born in 1911.
The last governing Maharaja of Alwar was Maharaja Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar, who lived from 17 March 1911 until 15 February 2009. Tej Singh supported Hindu nationali...
In 1965, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space after abandoning his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes.
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, major general in the Russian Air Force, writer, and artist. On March 18, 1965, he became the first pe...
Lily Collins, a British-American actress, was born in Guildford, England in 1989.
Lily Collins is a well-known British-American model and actress. The celebrity, who graduated from the 'University of Southern California,' has been involv...
Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computers, married Laurene Powell in 1991.
On New Year's Day 1990, Jobs proposed with "a bunch of freshly gathered wildflowers." Laurene Powell, a new MBA student, crept to the front of the le...
Shashi Kapoor, an Indian actor and film producer, was born in 1938.
Shashi Kapoor was a well-known Indian actor and filmmaker who excelled in mainstream Hindi cinema. The actor who rose to prominence at the age of four. His father ...
Alisha Chinai, an Indian pop singer best known for her Indi-pop albums and playback singing in Hindi films, was born in 1965.
Alisha Chinai is a popular pop vocalist who is credited with popularising pop music in India. She was born on March 18, 1972, and has revolutionised the Indian mus...
Ratna Pathak, an actress and director recognised for her work in theatre, television, and Bollywood cinema, was born in 1957.
Ratna Pathak Shah is well-known for her work in the theatre, television, and Bollywood cinema. She was born in a Gujarati household on March 18, 1957. Her father&#...
In 1972, India and Bangladesh signed a friendship pact.
The India–Bangladesh Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Peace was a 25-year treaty signed on March 19, 1972, between India and the newly founded state of B...
The Yamuna and Ganges rivers in India were designated "living creatures" by a court in the state of Uttarakhand in 2017.
The High Court of Uttarakhand, India, ruled on March 20, 2017, that "the rivers Ganga and Yamuna, and all their tributaries...are declared as juristic/legal p...
Khushwant Singh, an Indian novelist, lawyer, diplomat, writer, and politician, died in 2014.
Khushwant Singh (February 2, 1915 – March 20, 2014) was an Indian novelist, lawyer, diplomat, journalist, and politician. His experiences during India's ...
Alka Yagnik, an Indian playback singer, was born in 1966.
Alka Yagnik (born March 20, 1966) is an Indian playback singer who mostly performs in Hindi films. She has been characterised in the media as one of Bollywood'...
Bruce Willis, an American actor, was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, in 1955.
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an actor from the United States. In the 1970s, he began his career on the off-Broadway theatre. He rose to prominence ...
Scott Eastwood, an American actor and model, was born in 1986.
Scott Eastwood, born March 21, 1986, is a model and actor from the United States. Clint Eastwood, the actor and filmmaker, is his father.Scott Clinton Reeves, bett...
Pocahontas, an American Indian princess and the daughter of Powhatan, dies at the age of 22 in 1617.
Pocahontas, also known as Matoaka, was born Amonute and lived from 1596 until March 1617. She was a Powhatan-speaking Native American lady most known for her conne...
In 2009, Bruce Willis, star of the Die Hard franchise, married model and actress Emma Heming in Turks & Caicos Islands.
Willis was engaged to actress Brooke Burns for ten months before their breakup in 2004. Moore was there on March 21, 2009, when Bruce Willis married Emma Heming. C...
Rani Mukherjee, an Indian actress, was born in 1978.
Rani Mukerji is an Indian film actress who was born on March 21, 1978. She is known for her versatility and has received several awards, including seven Filmfare A...
Ronaldinho Gaucho, a Brazilian soccer player, was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1980.
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21, 1980), popularly known as Ronaldinho Gacho or just Ronaldinho, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who mostly p...
Timothy Dalton, a Welsh actor, was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales in 1946.
Timothy Dalton is an English actor who was born on March 21, 1946. He made his cinematic debut as Philip II of France in the 1968 historical drama The Lion in Wint...
M. N. Roy, an Indian revolutionary, radical activist, and political thinker, was born in 1887.
Manabendra Nath Roy, who lived from March 21, 1887 to January 25, 1954, was an Indian Communist revolutionary, radical activist, and political thinker, as well as ...
Colonel Harland Sanders establishes the American fast food restaurant brand "KFC" in North Corbin, Kentucky in 1930.
He took over a Shell filling station on US Route 25 just outside North Corbin, a little town on the outskirts of the Appalachian Mountains, in 1930. By June, he ha...
PETA was formed in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco, who were inspired by the book Animal Liberation by Australian ethicist Peter Singer.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA for short, is the world's biggest animal rights group, with over 700,000 members. Ingrid Newkirk and Alex ...
In 2020, India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, declared the country's largest-ever self-imposed curfew, dubbed the 'Janata Curfew.' This was done in order to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
In his State of the Union speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocates for social distance and announces the formation of the COVID-19 task team to solve economi...
In 1739, Nadir Shah seized control of Delhi and devastated it, taking the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
Nadir Shah, led by Persian and Turkish soldiers, ended his conquest of the Mughal Empire on March 21, 1739, by taking Delhi, India, its capital. He grabbed great s...
1894 Surya Sen, often known as Master Da, is an Indian independence campaigner who was born in Chittagong, India.
Surya Sen was born on March 22, 1894, in Noapara, Chittagong, to Sashibala and Ramaniranjan Sen, both teachers. He was raised by his uncle, Gourimoni, after losing...
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...
Kangana Ranaut, an Indian actress and filmmaker who works in Hindi cinema, was born in 1987.
Kangana Ranaut, an Indian actress, is well-known in the Bollywood film business. She is well-known for her incredible acting abilities and tough roles. She was bor...
Smriti Irani, an Indian politician, former model, television actress, and producer, was born in 1976.
Smriti Zubin Irani, an actress turned politician, was born into a Punjabi middle-class family in Delhi. Her husband, Ajay Kumar Malhotra, is from a Punjabi family....
In 2020, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi orders a 21-day lockdown for the world's second most populous country, with 1.3 billion people, to cope with COVID-19.
To deal with COVID-19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi orders a 21-day lockdown for the world's second most populous country, with 1.3 billion inhabitants....
Jim Parsons, an American actor, was born in Houston, Texas in 1973.
James Joseph Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is a producer and actor from the United States. Parsons starred as Sheldon Cooper in the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory ...
Steve McQueen, the American actor known as "The King of Cool" during the 1960s, was born in Beech Grove, Indiana in 1930.
Terrence Stephen McQueen was an American actor who lived from March 24, 1930 until November 7, 1980. His antihero character, which was highlighted during the 1960s...
Harry Houdini, alias Erich Weiss, a famous magician and escape artist, was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, in 1874.
Harry Houdini, born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, and died on October 31, 1926 in New York City, was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, stu...
Krunal Pandya, an Indian international cricketer, was born in 1991.
Krunal Himanshu Pandya (born 24 March 1991) is an Indian international cricketer who currently plays for Baroda in domestic cricket and Lucknow Super Giants in the...
Emraan Hashmi, an Indian film actor who acts in Hindi films, was born in 1979.
Syed Emraan Anwar Hashmi (born March 24, 1979) is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi films. Hashmi has been nominated for three Filmfare Awards. Before p...
In 1995, WikiWikiWeb was made Public and it was accessed by All
The first wiki, or user-editable website, is the WikiWikiWeb. Ward Cunningham, a programmer, established it on March 25, 1995, to accompany the Portland Pattern Re...
Elton John, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, is an English singer-songwriter and pianist born in Pinner, Middlesex, in 1947.
Elton John, the English rock artist formerly known for his showy attire and streak of hit albums, has recently become a humanitarian with a special interest in ass...
Sarah Jessica Parker, an American actress, was born in Nelsonville, Ohio in 1965.
Sarah Jessica Parker is a well-known actress and producer from the United States. She rose to prominence as Carrie Bradshaw in the hit TV series 'Sex and the C...
Keira Knightley, an English actress, was born in London, England in 1985.
Keira Knightley is a British model and actress. She is well-known for her roles in films such as "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbea...
In 1552, Guru Amar Das is appointed as the Third Sikh Guru.
Guru Amar Das was the third of Sikhism's ten Gurus. He was converted to Sikhism fairly late in life, having spent the majority of his life as a devout Hindu. H...
Robert Frost, an American poet, was born in San Francisco, California in 1874.
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet who lived from March 26, 1874 until January 29, 1963. His work was first published in England before being released in the Un...
Mahadevi Varma, a Hindi poet, independence warrior, and educator from India, was born in 1907.
Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch tale writer, and prominent figure of Hindi literature who lived from March 26, 1907 to September...
Prakash Raj, an Indian cinema actor, director, producer, dramatist, television host, and campaigner, was born in 1965.
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai on March 26, 1965) is an Indian politician, actor, film director, producer, and television host. He has received various awards for h...
Indira Gandhi marries politician and journalist Feroze Gandhi at Anand Bhavan in 1942.
Feroze proposed to Indira in 1933, but she and her mother declined, claiming that she was too young, barely 16 at the time. He became close to the Nehru family, pa...
