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Leonardo DiCaprio, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1974.
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, and is best known for his edgy, unconventional roles. He began his career in t...
Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Minister of Education, was born in Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, in 1888.
Maulana Azad was born on November 11, 1888, in Makkah, Hejaz vilayet, Ottoman Empire, now Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During the Indian independence movement, he was an I...
Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, the ninth Nanak and the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikhs, was executed at the age of 54 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675.
Guru Teg Bahadur was the ninth Sikh Guru, and the Sikhs revered him as the "Protector of Humanity." Guru Tegh Bahadur was a wonderful teacher as wel...
India's opening batsman Rohit Sharma recorded the highest individual ODI score on November 13, 2014.
India's opening batsman Rohit Sharma recorded the highest individual ODI score on November 13, 2014. At the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Rohit, a.k.a. "Hitman," smashed 264 runs in 173 ba...
Stan Lee [Stanley Martin Lieber], an American comic-book artist, writer, and the creative boss of the Marvel multimedia conglomerate, died in 2018 at the age of 95.
Stan Lee, the man credited with ushering in a new renaissance in comic books with his many flawed, relatable superheroes such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, died on N...
Anne Hathaway, an American actress, was born in New York City in 1982.
Anne Hathaway, full name Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born November 12, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, is an American actress known for her versat...
Ryan Gosling, a Canadian actor, was born in London, Ontario in 1980.
Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, into a working-class Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints family in the city ...
During the Gemini program in 1966, Buzz Aldrin snaps the first'space selfie,' a photograph of himself practicing extravehicular activity in space.
On November 12, 1966, decades before the term "selfie" became widespread, NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin took the first space selfie while on a spacewalk during the Gemini 12 mission. In a Tw...
Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit a planet on November 13, 1971.
A robotic spacecraft called Mariner 9 that was a component of NASA's Mariner programme made a significant contribution to the exploration of Mars. Mariner 9 wa...
Michael Schumacher won his first Formula One drivers' world championship on November 13th, 1994
Michael Schumacher, a German race car driver who holds records for winning the most Formula One (F1) Grand Prix races, was born on January 3, 1969 in Hürth-Hermülhein, West Germany. Micha...
Juhi Chawla is an Indian actress, producer, and businesswoman who was born on November 13, 1967
Juhi Chawla is an Indian actress, producer, and businesswoman who was born on November 13, 1967. From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, she established herself as one of the top actresses in Hindi...
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh married at Lake Como, Italy, in the first of two weddings in 2018.
Two of the famous Bollywood actors, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, the Bajiro and Mastani of Indian film industry tied thier sacred knot on November 14 at Lak...
Dennis Rodman (37) of the Chicago Bulls married Carmen Electra (26) in the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1998.
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra walked into the iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel, Chapel of the Flowers, on November 14, 1998, and eloped after dating for several ...
Michael Jackson (38) marries Debbie Rowe (38) in Sydney, Australia in 1996.
On November 14, 1996, Jackson, 38, married Debbie Rowe, 37, a longtime friend and nurse to his plastic surgeon. Michael Jackson married the woman carrying his chil...
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian teacher and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at the age of 81 in 1977.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta, also known as Swami Prabhupda, was an Indian religious leader and author who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also...
King Charles, former Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall, was born in London in 1948.
King Charles, former prince of Wales and earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick and Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince...
Aditya Birla, an industrialist, was born in India in 1944.
Aditya Vikram Birla was a businessman from India. He oversaw the diversification of his group into textiles, petrochemicals, and telecommunications after being bor...
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and a key figure in the Indian independence struggle, was born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India, in 1889.
Indira Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leader of India's nationalist movement and the country's first prime minister following independence. In 1889, Nehru was born in Allahaba...
Astronomers announced the finding of a Super-Earth planet circling the red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years distant, in 2018.
On November 14, 2018, astronomers discovered a frozen and dimly lit planet, dubbed 'Super-Earth,' orbiting the closest solitary star to the Sun, a breakthr...
Albert Einstein introduces his quantum theory of light in 1908.
Albert Einstein, the scientist who unveiled his radical theory of relativity, presented his quantum theory about light on November 14, 1908. Albert Einstein's ...
Sony releases the Playstation Four in 2013, selling one million copies on the first day.
Sony reportedly sold over one million units of its latest gaming console PlayStation 4 on its first day of sale, November 15th, 2013, in the United States and Cana...
Microsoft delivers the first Xbox gaming console in the United States in 2001.
The Xbox is a home video game console that was the first in Microsoft's Xbox series of video game consoles. It was released on November 15, 2001, as Microsoft&...
In the year 2000, India gains a new state, Jharkhand.
On November 15, 2000, Jharkhand was formed from 18 districts of Bihar. Six more districts were later created by reorganising the existing districts.
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Sania Mirza, an Indian tennis player, was born in Mumbai, India in 1986.
Sania Mirza is one of the world's most well-known tennis players. She is of Indian origin and has made a name for herself in the world of tennis. Sania has won...
Birsa Munda, an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, was born in Ulihatu, Bengal Presidency, British India, in 1875.
Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero from the Chhotanagpur Plateau area. Birsa Munda established a tribal religious Mi...
Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor, playwright, and poet, dies of COVID complications at the age of 85 in 2020.
Soumitra Chatterjee, a legendary Indian actor best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, died on November 15 from Covid complicati...
Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor (The Chess Players, Gandhi), died in 2015 at the age of 86.
On November 15, 86-year-old Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey, who appeared in films such as A Passage to India and Gandhi, died. Jaffrey appeared in over 150 films, i...
Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese video game designer (Nintendo, developer of Mario and The Legend of Zelda), was born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan, in 1952.
Shigeru Miyamoto (JP) is a Nintendo video game director, producer, artist, designer, and general manager who was born on November 16, 1952. He is regarded as one o...
Lionel Messi, at 16, makes his FC Barcelona debut in 2003, coming in as a substitute in a friendly against Porto.
Messi made his first team debut on November 16, 2003, at the age of 16 years, four months, and 23 days, when he came on in the 75th minute of a friendly against Jo...
Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins the first free elections in 11 years in 1988.
The PPP of Pakistan's Bhutto won the first free elections for the first time in 11 years. Despite allegations of vote rigging against the PPP and the use of th...
In 1558, at the age of 25, Elizabeth I ascends to the English throne following the death of her half-sister, Queen "Bloody" Mary.
After her half-sister died in November 1558, Elizabeth ascended to the throne. She was well-educated (fluent in five languages) and had inherited her parents' ...
Imrat Khan, an Indian sitar and surbahar performer and composer, was born in Calcutta, British India, in 1935.
Ustad Imrat Khan is a world-renowned surbahar performer, a deep-toned, sitar-like stringed instrument invented by his great-grandfather, Ustad Sahabdad Khan, and U...
Chanda Kochhar, an Indian businesswoman (CEO of ICICI Bank), was born in Jodhpur, India, in 1961.
ICICI Bank's managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) is Chanda Kochhar. She was born in Rajasthan on November 17th, 1961. She is well-known fo...
Omprakash Valmiki, an Indian Dalit writer and poet (Joothan), died of stomach cancer in 2013 at the age of 63.
Omprakash Valmiki was a Dalit writer and poet from India. Joothan is well-known for his autobiography, which is regarded as a watershed moment in Dalit literature....
Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian novelist, politician, and independence fighter, was born in 1928.
Lala Lajpat Rai, also known as "Punjab Kesari," was an Indian independence activist, author, politician, and freedom fighter who played a pivotal role in...
Indira Gandhi, India's fourth Prime Minister, was born in Allahabad in 1917.
Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, as Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, née Nehru. She was an Indian politician who served as the ...
Tom Cruise, an American film actor and producer, marries actress Katie Holmes in 2006 at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy.
On this day in 2006, the stars married within Bracciano, Italy's 15th-century Odescalchi Castle, a ceremony that allegedly cost them more than $3 million. Kati...
Colonel Sanders marries Claudia Price, a long-time employee of KFC, in 1948.
Claudia Ledington, a former waitress at Sanders' first business, Sanders Cafe, was one outlet for Sanders' sexual impulses. Claudia and Sanders married in ...
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics, died in 1962 at the age of 77.
Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 7, 1885, to mother Ellen Adler, a prosperous Jewish banking family, and father Christian Bohr, a noted physi...
Owen Wilson, an American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander), was born in Dallas, Texas in 1968.
Owen Wilson is an actor and screenwriter most known for his work with Wes Anderson, with whom he has collaborated on multiple projects. Wilson and Anderson met at ...
Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author/poet, was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She and her family relocated to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945, and to Toronto, Canada, in ...
On December 19, 2010, Sachin Tendulkar scored 111 runs against South Africa
On December 19, 2010, Sachin Tendulkar scored 111 runs against South Africa at Centurion, but India lost the game by an innings and 25 runs.
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Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, was crowned 44th Miss World in 1994.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is one of the most well-known Indian actresses in the world today. And winning the Miss World title on November 19, 1994, in Sun City, South...
Alfred Tennyson succeeds William Wordsworth as British Poet Laureate in 1850.
Alfred Tennyson, a Victorian poet, took over as British Poet Laureate today, succeeding William Wordsworth on November 19, 1850. Leigh Hunt and Elizabeth Barrett B...
Jack Dorsey, an American computer programmer and co-founder of Twitter, was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1976.
Jack Dorsey, born November 19, 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, is an American Web developer and entrepreneur who cofounded (2006) the online microblogg...
Calvin Klein, an American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), was born in The Bronx, New York, in 1942.
Calvin Klein, full name Calvin Richard Klein, was born on November 19, 1942, in Bronx, New York, New York, United States. He is an American fashion designer known ...
Sushmita Sen, an Indian actress, model, and Miss Universe 1994 winner, was born on November 19, 1975.
Sushmita Sen, an Indian actress, model, and Miss Universe 1994 winner, was born on November 19, 1975. It is the first time an Indian has won Miss Universe. At the ...
Zeenat Aman, an Indian actress, was born in 1951.
Zeenat Aman is widely regarded as one of India's most influential actresses. Aman, who was born on November 19, 1951 in Bombay, has received numerous awards an...
Gene Tierney, an American actress, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920.
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress who was born on November 19, 1920. She rose to prominence as a leading lady after being praised for her b...
Lakshmi Bai, the Indian Queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India and the commander of the First War of Indian Independence, was born in Benares, Kingdom of Kashi-Benares, in 1835.
In Jhansi, Martyr's Day is observed on November 19, the birth anniversary of Rani Lakshmibai, to commemorate the lives lost in the 1857 Rebellion. Rani Lakshmi...
In Westminster Abbey, London, future British Queen Princess Elizabeth II (21) marries Lt Philip Mountbatten (26) in 1947.
Princess Elizabeth, 21, and Prince Philip Mountbatten, 26, married on November 20, 1947, at Westminster Abbey in London. On his wedding day, Prince Philip, son of ...
Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian author, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 1910.
Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, —died on November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), was a renowned Russian author, a ma...
Joe Biden, the current President of the United States, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942.
Joe Biden, born Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., is the 46th President of the United States and the 47th Vice Pres...
Robert F. Kennedy, an American politician, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1925.
Robert F. Kennedy was an American politician who was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1952, he ran his brother John F. Kennedy's U.S....
Tipu Sultan, the Indian king of the Kingdom of Mysore, was born at Devanahalli, Bangalore, India, in 1750.
Tipu Sultan was Hyder Ali's son, who founded the Mysore sultanate was born on November 20th in the year 1950, at Devanahalli in Bangalore. During their reign, ...
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in 1985.
Windows 1.0, the first version of the Microsoft Windows line, was released on November 20, 1985. It runs on top of an existing MS-DOS installation as a graphical, ...
