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Lady Gaga, aka Stefani Germanotta, is an American singer-songwriter and actress who was born in New York in 1986.
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986, in Manhattan, parents Joseph Anthony Germanotta Jr and Cynthia Louise. Her parents named her Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta at...
Akshaye Khanna, an Indian actor who acts in Hindi films, was born in 1975.
Akshaye Khanna is an Indian Bollywood actor who was born on March 28, 1975 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to veteran actor Vinod Khanna and former model Geetanjali Khanna....
1996 Angelina Jolie marries actor Jonny Lee Miller.
The Maleficent actress and the Elementary star started dating in 1995 while working on the aforementioned Hackers, but they broke up after production wrapped. They...
Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the East India Company's government in India in 1857, sparking the lengthy Indian Rebellion of 1857. It is often referred to as the "First War of Independence."
On March 29, 1857, at the Barrackpore parade field outside Calcutta, 29-year-old Mangal Pandey of the 34th BNI stated his intention to revolt against his superiors...
The Punjab is annexed by the United Kingdom in 1849.
On March 29, 1849, Lord Dalhousie declared the conquest of the Punjab. Henry Miers Elliot, his foreign secretary, came in Lahore to acquire the signatures of the m...
Anupam Roy was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, in 1982, and is an Indian vocalist, writer, composer, and playback singer.
Anupam Roy (born 29 March 1982) is a West Bengal-born Indian singer, writer, composer, and playback vocalist. Anupam Roy, a significant personality in the Bengali ...
In 1867, the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000, or about 2 cents per acre.
Alaska Purchase, the acquisition of 586,412 square miles of territory near the northern extremity of the North American continent by the United States from Russia,...
Celine Dion, a Canadian singer, was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, in 1968.
Celine Dion was born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Québec, a small hamlet 50 kilometres northwest of Montréal. Thérèse Tanguay and...
Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist, painter, and Expressionism pioneer, was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, in 1853.
Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, a hamlet in the southern province of North Brabant, on March 30, 1853. Little is known about Vincent's childhood, save th...
Rajasthan Day was founded in 1949, and Jaipur was designated as the state's capital.
Rajasthan is known as the "Land of Kings" or "Land of Kingdoms" since it is the largest state in terms of land area. It is located in the count...
Guru Har Krishan, the eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus, died in 1664. He was also one of the youngest gurus, having become a guru at the age of five.
Guru Har Krishan was the eighth and final Sikh Guru. When he replaced his father Guru Har Rai as a five-year-old on October 7, 1661, he became Sikhism's younge...
Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich, an actress in Indian cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in 1908.
Devika Rani, the first lady of Indian film, was born on March 30, 1908 in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh to Col. M. N. Chaudhuri. She is known as the "First L...
Meena Kumari, an Indian cinema actress, died at the age of 38 in 1972.
Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; lived from 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972 was an Indian cinema actress and poet. She was well known as The Tragedy Que...
Isaac Newton, an English scientist and astronomer, died in London in 1727 at the age of 84.
Sir Isaac Newton, who lived from 25 December 1642 to 31 March 1726/27, was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author ...
In 1938 Sheila Dikshit was born. She was a politician and stateswoman from India.
Sheila Dikshit (March 31, 1938 – July 20, 2019) was an Indian politician. She was the longest-serving Chief Minister of Delhi, as well as the long...
Meira Kumar, an Indian politician and former diplomat, was born in 1945.
Meira Kumar (born 31 March 1945) is a politician and former diplomat from India. She was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009, the Mini...
Guru Angad, the second Sikh Guru, was born in 1504 as an Indian religious leader.
Guru Angad, who lived from 31 March 1504 to 29 March 1552, was the second of Sikhism's ten gurus. After meeting the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, beco...
The Eiffel Tower formally opens in Paris in 1889. Built during the Exposition Universelle, it holds the record for the highest man-made tower at 300m for 41 years.
The Eiffel Structure is a wrought-iron lattice tower on Paris's Champ de Mars. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose firm planned and constructe...
In 1980, Randy Orton, an American Wrestler was born
Randal Keith "Randy" Orton (born April 1, 1980) is a professional wrestler and actor most known to sports entertainment audiences for his work with WWE. ...
Marvin Gaye, an American soul singer-songwriter, was shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay, Sr., after a domestic altercation in Los Angeles in 1984, at the age of 44.
Marvin Gaye was an American singer and composer who lived from April 2, 1939 until April 1, 1984. In the 1960s, he helped establish the sound of Motown, first as a...
Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield, an English actor, was born in 1997.
Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield is an English actor who was born on April 1, 1997. He has received two Critics' Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and thr...
Logan Paul, an American YouTube star, was born in Westlake, Ohio in 1995.
Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is a YouTuber and social media personality from the United States. He has been running the Impaulsive podcast since Novem...
Google Gmail is released to the public in 2004.
Google Gmail is a free email service offered by Google. It had 1.5 billion active users globally as of 2019. Gmail is normally accessed using a web browser or the ...
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation initiative, is begun in India's Jim Corbett National Park in 1973.
Project Tiger is a tiger conservation effort initiated by the Government of India in April 1973, during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's reign. The initiative se...
The Reserve Bank of India, India's major financial institution, was established in 1935.
The Reserve Bank of India is India's central bank and regulatory agency, in charge of issuing and supplying the Indian rupee as well as regulating the Indian b...
Jazzy B, an Indian-Canadian Punjabi playback singer and songwriter, was born in 1975.
Jaswinder Singh Bains (born 1 April 1975) is an Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer and composer better known by his stage name Jazzy B. Jazzy B was born in the Indian ci...
Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion, was born in 1621.
Guru Tegh Bahadur (April 1, 1621 – November 11, 1675) was the ninth of ten Gurus who created the Sikh religion and the Sikh leader from 1665 until his execut...
David Beckham, an English soccer midfielder and owner, was born in London, England in 1975.
David Robert Joseph Beckham was born on May 2, 1975, in the London neighbourhood of Leytonstone, to David Edward Alan Beckham and Sandra Georgina. His father was a...
In 1933, Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, first Indian to Play for English Team died
Ranjitsinhji, the king of Nawanagar State and one of the best batters in cricket history, was born on September 10, 1872, in Sadodar, Nawanagar State, Kathiawar. H...
Michael Fassbender, an Irish-German actor, was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, in 1977.
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a racing driver and German-Irish actor. He has won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and ha...
Walter Chrysler, an American automobile pioneer and thoroughbred breeder, was born in Wamego, Kansas in 1875.
Walter Percy Chrysler, who lived from April 2, 1875 to August 18, 1940, was an American automotive industry pioneer, executive, and the founder and namesake of Ame...
Marvin Gaye, an American soul singer-songwriter, was born in Washington, DC in 1939.
Marvin Gaye, born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., was an American singer and songwriter who lived from April 2, 1939 to April 1, 1984. In the 1960s, he helped shape the soun...
Samuel Morse, American painter and creator of the electric telegraph and Morse Code, dies at the age of 80 in 1872.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who lived from April 27, 1791 to April 2, 1872. After establishing a reputation as a portrait paint...
Meghalaya becomes an independent state inside India's Assam state in 1970.
Meghalaya, which translates as "abode of clouds," is a state in northeastern India. On 21 January 1972, Meghalaya was formed by carving out two districts...
Kapil Sharma, an Indian stand-up comedian, television presenter, actor, and producer, was born in 1981.
Kapil Sharma (born April 2, 1981) is an Indian stand-up comedian, television host, television actor, and film and television producer best known for hosting The Ka...
Remo D'Souza, an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor, and film director, was born in 1974.
Remo D'Souza (born Ramesh Gopi on April 2, 1974) is a choreographer, actor, and film director from India. D'Souza was born on April 2, 1974, in Bangalore, ...
Ajay Devgn, an Indian film actor, director, and producer, was born in 1969.
Vishal Veeru Devgan (born 2 April 1969) is an Indian actor, film director, and producer better known as Ajay Devgn. He's been in over a hundred Hindi films. De...
Charles Dickens, an English author and social commentator, marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836.
Catherine Hogarth was born in Scotland, the oldest daughter of George and Georgina Hogarth. Her family migrated to England in 1834, where her father worked as a mu...
In 1973, Today the first Mobile Phone Call was made by Martin Cooper
Motorola was the first business to create a mobile phone that could be held in one's hand. Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first m...
Shivaji Bhonsle, Indian monarch and founder of the Maratha Empire, dies of illness and dysentery at the age of 52 in 1680.
Shivaji Bhonsale I, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan who reigned from 19 February 1630 to 3 April 16...
Cobie Smulders, a Canadian actress, was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982.
Smulders, Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Robin Scherbatsky in How...
Eddie Murphy, an American actor, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1961.
Edward Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and singer from the United States. He rose to prominence as a regular cast member on the...
Alec Baldwin, an American Emmy Award-winning actor, was born in Amityville, New York in 1958.
Alexander Baldwin (born April 3, 1958) is an actor, writer, comedian, film producer, and political activist from the United States. He is the eldest of the Baldwin...
In 1914, Sam Manekshaw, the Indian Army's Chief of Army Staff and the country's first Field Marshall, was born.
General of the Army Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, also known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Sta...
Vikrant Massey, an Indian cinema and television actor, was born in 1987.
Vikrant Massey is a well-known Indian actor who has appeared in Hindi television, films, and web series. He made his acting debut as Aamir Hassan in Dhoom Machaao ...
Prabhu Deva, an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer, and actor who has worked in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu films, was born in 1973.
Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer, and actor best known for his work in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu films. He ...
Martin Luther King Jr., an American pastor and Civil Rights Movement leader, was slain at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1955 until his assassination in 1968, he was the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement. He was born on Januar...
Andre Michelin, a French businessman, tyre producer, and publisher of the Michelin Guide, died of respiratory failure at the age of 78 in 1931.
André Jules Michelin, who lived from 16 January 1853 to 4 April 1931, was a French industrialist who founded the Michelin Tyre Company (Compagnie Gén...
Karl Benz, a German inventor, engine designer, and vehicle maker, died of bronchial inflammation at the age of 84 in 1929.
Carl Friedrich Benz, also known as Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer who lived from 25 November 1844 to 4 April 1929. His 1...
Heath Ledger, an Australian-American actor, was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1979.
Although his life was cut short, his achievements as an actor, even during this little era, will be remembered for a long time by moviegoers. Heath, who made his t...
Robert Downey Jr, an American actor, was born in New York City in 1965.
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is a producer and actor from the United States. His career has been marked by critical and popular success in his youth...
Graham Norton, an Irish comedian and TV broadcaster, was born in Dublin in 1963.
Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963) is an Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter better known by his stage name Graham Norton. In the Unit...
Maya Angelou, as Marguerite Johnson, is an American novelist, poet, and actor who was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1928.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist who lived from April 4, 1928 to May 28, 2014. She wrote sev...
Jack Ma establishes the Chinese online business Alibaba in 1999.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, or Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company that specialises in e-commerce, retail, the Internet, and technology. The ...
Garry Sandhu, an Indian singer, composer, and actor best known for his work in Punjabi music, was born in 1984.
Gurmukh Singh "Garry" Sandhu is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor best known for his contributions to Punjabi music. In 2010, he made his singing d...
Parveen Babi, an Indian cinema actress, model, and interior designer, was born in 1949.
Parveen Babi (April 4, 1954 – January 20, 2005) was an Indian model and actress. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Babi was best known for her roles in H...
Rashmika Mandanna, an Indian cinema actress and model who works primarily in Telugu and Kannada films, was born in 1996.
Rashmika Mandanna, born 5 April 1996, is an Indian actress and model who primarily works in Telugu and Kannada films. She has received the Filmfare Award South as ...
Akira Toriyama, a Japanese manga artist, was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in 1955.
Toriyama Akira is a Japanese manga artist and character designer who was born on April 5, 1955. He rose to prominence with his highly successful manga series Dr. S...
Pharrell Williams, an American singer-songwriter, music producer, and film producer, was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1973.
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams, born April 5, 1973, is a rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur from the United States. In the early 1990s, he f...
Hayley Atwell, a British-American actress, was born in London, England in 1982.
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is a British and American actress who was born on April 5, 1982. Atwell, who was born and raised in London, studied acting at the Guildhall...
Raphael Sanzio, an Italian artist, dies on his 37th birthday in 1520.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance who lived from April 6, 1483 to April 6, 1520. He d...
Raphael Sanzio, an Italian painter and skilled builder, was born in Urbino Julian around 1483.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance who lived from April 6, 1483 to April 6, 1520. His ...
J. Stuart Blackton's "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" is released in 1906 as the world's first animated cartoon.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton that is widely recognised as the first animated film recor...
Paul Rudd, an American actor, was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1969.
Paul Rudd is an American actor who rose to prominence as a youngster after starring in the comedy film 'Clueless.' He quickly rose through the ranks, landi...
The Red Fort in Shahjahanabad was constructed in 1648. (Modern Day Delhi)
The Red Fort, also known as Lal Qila, is a historic fort in Old Delhi, Delhi, India that served as the main residence of the Mughal Emperors. When Emperor Shah Jah...
Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India in 1966.
Mihir Sen (November 16, 1930 – June 11, 1997) was a well-known Indian long-distance swimmer and lawyer. In 1958, he was the first Asian to cross the English ...
