On this Day it will let you learn more about the history, with a little personal perspective. Who was born? Who died? What happened? How did it happen? Who is your famous birthday twin? What happened the day you were born? Or you just want to learn about history through every date? Continue to explore history from every day of a year…
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, physicist, and visionary, dies at the age of 67 in 1519.
In 1516, Francis I of France commissioned Leonardo to construct a town and palace complex for the royal court at Romorantin, a seemingly insurmountable feat. The C...
Dwayne [The Rock] Johnson, an American pro wrestler, actor, and producer, was born in Hayward, California in 1972.
Dwayne Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California, USA. Rocky Johnson, his father, was a professional wrestler, and his mother, Ata Maivia, wa...
In 2011, US special forces kill Osama bin Laden, the accused architect of the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
On May 2, 2011, soon after 1:00 a.m. PKT, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, was assassinated in Pakist...
Satyajit Ray, an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, and graphic designer, was born in 1921.
Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921 in Calcutta, India, to an aristocratic Bengali family with a strong legacy in art and literature. He was the only son of Sukum...
Ritu Phogat, an Indian female wrestler and mixed martial artist, was born in 1994.
Ritu Phogat is a well-known Indian female wrestler from Balali, Haryana. Ritu Phogat won the gold medal in the 2016 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship and became ...
In the year 1933, James Brown, often known as 'The Godfather of Soul,' is an American R&B, gospel, soul, and funk singer who was born in Barnwell, South Carolina.
James Joseph Brown was a well-known American musician who made significant contributions to the development of various musical genres, including soul music, funk m...
Golda Meir, an Israeli teacher, stateswoman, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel renowned as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1898.
Golda Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Ukraine, to Moshe and Bluma Mabovitch. In 1906, she and her family relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Mabovitch fa...
Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian politician and writer, was born in Florence, Italy in 1469.
Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli's works are rarely rendered. Nicholas Machiavel, who lived from 3 May 1469 to 21 June 1527, was an Italian Renaissance diplo...
The Kargil conflict erupted in 1999 as a result of Pakistani forces infiltrating the Indian side.
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil war, was a military confrontation conducted between India and Pakistan in the Kargil area of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhe...
Nargis, an Indian film actress who appeared in vintage Bollywood films, died in 1981.
Nargis Dutt was born on June 1, 1929 and died on May 3, 1981. She was an Indian politician and actress who appeared in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of the g...
Matt LeBlanc, of "Friends," married former model Melissa McKnight in 2003 at a secluded residence overlooking Anini Beach in Kilauea, Hawaii.
Matt Le Blanc has a wide range of automotive hobbies and formerly worked as a carpenter before becoming an actor. In May 2003, he married Melissa McKnight, a Briti...
Dwayne The Rock Johnson marries producer Dany Garcia in 1997.
On May 3, 1997, Johnson married Dany Garcia. She is a businessman, an IFBB pro bodybuilder, and a producer. Simone, their daughter, was born on August 14, 2001. Th...
Tyagaraja, a well-known Carnatic music composer, born in 1767.
After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire at the end of the 16th century, many Hindu families migrated to the southern districts of Tamilnadu, which were still calm...
Margaret Thatcher is the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
After the Callaghan government lost a vote of no confidence in early 1979, a general election was called. Thatcher became the first female British prime minister a...
Audrey Hepburn, a British actress, was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929.
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium, to J. A. Hepburn-Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. When she was eight years old, her father, a b...
Keira Knightley, a British actress, married musician James Righton in France in 2013.
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...
Tipu Sultan, the monarch of the Kingdom of Mysore, died in 1799.
Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore or Tippoo Sahib by the British, was an Indian prince who fought against the East India Company's takeover of sou...
Maharaja Chhatrasal was born in 1649, a mediaeval Indian warrior of the Bundela dynasty who battled against the Mughal Empire to create his own kingdom in Bundelkhand.
Maharaja Chhatrasal (May 4, 1649 – December 20, 1731) was a mediaeval Indian warrior of the Bundela Rajput tribe who battled against Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb...
Trisha Krishnan, better known as Trisha, is an Indian actress and model who works in the Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She was born in 1983.
Trisha Krishnan is a well-known and award-winning actress from both the Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She rose to prominence in the Tamil film business with ...
Adele, a British pop-rock singer-songwriter, was born in Tottenham, London, in 1988.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham, England, on May 5, 1988, to a Welsh father, Marc Evans, and an English mother, Penny Adkins. Evans left the family ...
Henry Cavill, an English actor, was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1983.
Henry Cavill was born on May 5, 1983, in Chester, England, to Colin Richard Cavill and Marianne Dalgliesh, who is part Irish, part English, and part Scottish. His ...
Karl Marx, a German philosopher, was born in Trier, Prussia, in 1818.
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revoluti...
The year was 1956. Gulshan Kumar Dua, the founder of the T-Series music label and an Indian businessman, was born.
Gulshan Kumar Dua (May 5, 1956 – August 12, 1997) was an Indian businessman and film and music producer who founded the Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T...
Guru Amar Das, the third of Sikhism's ten Gurus, was born in 1479.
Guru Amar Das, born on 5 May 1479 and died on 1 September 1574, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at the age of 73. B...
Angelina Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton in The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000.
Angelina Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas, after a two-month courtship. They met on the set of Pushing Tin, but did not pursue a...
Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, married Sajida Talfah, a teacher, in 1963.
Saddam married his first wife, cousin Sajida Talfah, in an arranged marriage in 1963. Sajida is Saddam's uncle and mentor Khairallah Talfah's daughter; the...
Shahuji II, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, died in 1983.
Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, commonly known as Rajarshi Shahu, was widely regarded as a genuine democracy and social reformer. He was the first Maharaja of the princ...
Naomi Scott, an English actress, was born in London, England in 1993.
Naomi Grace Scott was born on May 6, 1993, in Hounslow, London, England, to a Gujarati Indian mother, Usha Scott, and an English father, Christopher Scott. Naomi S...
George Clooney, an American actor, was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961.
George Timothy Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to entertainer Nick Clooney and beauty queen Nina Bruce on May 6, 1961. He was the younger of the two child...
Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and pioneer of psychology, was born in Freiberg, Austrian Empire, in 1856.
On May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Sigmund Freud was born to a wool trader and his second wife, Jakob and Amalie. This settlemen...
Elon Musk, an entrepreneur, founded SpaceX in 2002.
SpaceX is the creator of Starship as well as a commercial space enterprise best known for its International Space Station flights. Elon Musk launched SpaceX in 200...
Motilal Nehru, an Indian lawyer and politician who served as President of the Indian National Congress, was born in 1861.
Motilal Nehru, an Indian National Congress member and independence leader, was born on May 6, 1861. Motilal Nehru was born in Agra to Delhi Kotwal Gangadhar Nehru ...
Ajmal Kasab was condemned to death for the Mumbai 26/11 attack in 2010.
On May 6, 2010, he was condemned to death on four charges and life in prison on five. On February 21, 2011, the Bombay High Court affirmed Kasab's death senten...
Mughal Babur defeats Afghans and Bengals at the Battle of Gogra in 1529.
The War of Ghaghra, fought in 1529, was a pivotal battle in the Mughal Empire's conquest of India. It was fought after the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and ...
Sean Connery marries Micheline Roquebrune in Casablanca in 1975.
From 1975 until his death, Sean Connery was married to French-Moroccan painter Micheline Roquebrune. Connery's marriage survived a well-publicized romance with...
Bahubali 2 became the highest grossing film
Bahubali 2: The Conclusion was also the highest-grossing Indian film in the world, grossing $7.92 billion in six days. It was the first Indian film to enter the 1000 Crore Club, grossing more than ...
Amyra Dastur, an Indian film actress, was born in 1993.
She was born on the 7th of May, 1993, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She made her film debut in Issaq. Amyra Dastur is an Indian actress who began her career as a ...
Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian philosopher, poet, and writer, was born in Calcutta, India in 1861.
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 at the Jorasanko palace in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. He was the youngest son of thirteen childre...
Australian international cricketer Patrick James Cummins was born
Patrick James Cummins, born 8 May 1993, is an Australian international cricketer and the current Test captain of Australia. In limited-overs cricket, he is the tea...
RIL was founded in 1973
Dhirubhai Ambani and Champaklal Damani co-founded Reliance Commercial Corporation in the 1960s. The partnership ended in 1965, and Dhirubhai continued the firm's polyester business. Reliance Te...
Stephen Amell, a Canadian actor, was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1981.
Stephen Adam Amell was born in Toronto, Ontario, on May 8, 1981, parents Sandra Anne and Thomas J. Amell. His first cousin is actor Robbie Amell. He went to St. An...
Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop, was born in Madrid, Spain in 1975.
Enrique Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain on May 8, 1975. Julio Iglesias, his father, is a well-known Spanish musician, and Isabel Preysler, his mother, is a well...
Robert Johnson, an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in 1911.
Robert Leroy Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson, a sawmill employee. Robert Johnson was an American...
Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta offers the first Coca-Cola in 1886. (contained cocaine)
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton delivered a jug of his newest patent medicine, a tonic known as Coca-Cola, to Jacob's Pharmacy on Peachtree Str...
Ernest Rutherford reveals his discovery of two types of radiation in 1899. (Alpha and Beta Particles)
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He lived from 30 August 1871 to 19 October 1937. According to Ency...
Swami Chinmayananda, India's well-known spiritual thinker, was born in 1916.
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (Balakrishna Menon; May 8, 1916 – August 3, 1993) was a Hindu spiritual leader and teacher. In 1951, he established the Chinmay...
Dinesh Patel, an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher, was born in 1989.
Dinesh Kumar Patel (born May 8, 1989 in Lucknow, India) is an Indian right-handed pitcher who previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the first Indian...
Thomas Edison used his Kinetograph to show the first motion picture exhibition to an audience of 400 people in Brooklyn, New York in 1893 at the Dept of Physics, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
In 1894, Thomas Edison of Menlo Park Offsite Link, New Jersey, formally introduced the KinetoscopeOffsite Link, a hand-cranked, single-viewer, lighted box to displ...
Vandana Shiva of India was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010 for her work on women's empowerment and environmental protection in developing countries.
Vandana Shiva learned her first lessons in environmental protection in the Himalayas, where she was born in 1952 to a forest conservator father and a farmer mother...
Tom Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers in 1987.
Rogers had a different perspective. She told the Sun Sentinel in 1987 that she and Cruise were acquainted by mutual acquaintances. On May 9th, 1987, Cruise and Rog...
Tenzing Norgay, the first Tibetan climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary in 1953, died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 71 in 1986.
Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand's Edmund Hillar...
In 1866 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, an Indian social reformer and pioneer of the Indian Independence Movement, was born in Kotluk, Ratnagiri District, Bombay, India.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866, in the Ratnagiri District of the Bombay Presidency to an impoverished but ostensibly respectable Chitapavan Brahmin ...
In 1981, the 203-foot-high Motherland Monument is unveiled at Kyiv, Ukraine, in a ceremony attended by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
The sculptural arrangement The Motherland Monument is one of the exhibits of the Museum of Ukraine's World War II History. It is located on one of Kyiv's h...
Santosh Yadav of India became the world's first woman climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, in 1993.
Mountaineer Santosh Yadav placed India on the map by climbing Mount Everest twice; her first ascent was in 1992, and she was the youngest woman in the world at the...
In 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor and murderer of US President Abraham Lincoln, was born.
Booth, who was born on May 10, 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, excelled as a youth in athletics and extracurricular activities but was a mediocre student. His parents ...
Sharath Gayakwad, an Indian Paralympic swimmer from Bangalore, was born in 1991.
Sharath M. Gayakwad, born on May 10, 1991, is an Indian para-swimmer who has won about 40 national and 30 international medals in para swimming. Sharath M Gayakwad...
Subedar Major Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian Army was born in 1980.
Yogendra Singh Yadav was born on May 10, 1980, in the village of Aurangabad Ahir, Bulandshahr District, Uttar Pradesh, to the Kshatriya Yadav family. His father, K...
In the year 1857, The first fight of independence in India began. At Meerut, sepoys revolt against their commanding authorities.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, began at Meerut on May 10, 1857. Although not the first insurrection against the ...
Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist, was born in Figueres, Spain, in 1904.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal was a Spanish surrealist artist known for his technical skill, precise draughtsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of India, dedicated the Somnath Temple in 1951.
The Somnath temple in Gujarat was restored today (May 11). Rajendra Prasad, the first president of the Indian republic, led the reconsecration ceremony of the ling...
India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1998, including one with a thermonuclear weapon.
The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb tests conducted by India in May 1998 at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. It was India's second...
Amninderpal Singh Virk, better known as Ammy Virk, is an Indian singer, actor, and producer who was born in 1992.
Amninderpal Singh Virk, better known as Ammy Virk, is a Punjabi and Hindi film singer, actor, and producer. He founded the production company Villagers Film Studio...
Adah Sharma, an Indian actress, was born in 1992.
Adah Sharma is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi and Telugu films. After completing her education, Sharma made her acting debut in the 2008 Hindi lang...
Pooja Bedi, a former actress, television talk show host, and newspaper writer, was born in 1970.
Pooja Bedi (born 11 May 1970) is an Indian actress, television talk show host and newspaper columnist. She is the daughter of Indian actors Kabir Bedi and Protima ...
