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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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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, ...
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, ...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas in 1987.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis married on November 21, 1987, in the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas, barely four months after meeting, after Willis persuaded her to...
Jennifer Love Hewitt married actor Brian Hallisay in 2013.
Jennifer Love Hewitt married Brian Hallisay on November 21, 2013. Jennifer Love Hewitt and her actor-husband Brian Hallisay are expecting their third child. The 9-...
Sofia Vergara married True Blood actor Joe Manganiello in Palm Beach, Florida in 2015.
The love story of Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello is straight out of a Hollywood film. On November 22, 2015, the stunning couple married for the first time....
Aarti Chhabria, an Indian Bollywood actress and Miss India Worldwide 2000, was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, in 1982.
Aarti Chhabria is an Indian actress and model who was born on November 21, 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra (India). She was crowned Miss India Worldwide 2000 in 1999. ...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army proclaims a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War in 1962 in order to claim unlawfully captured territory.
Zhou Enlai suggested a cease-fire and negotiated a compromise. Enlai proposed that India and China disengage and withdraw their soldiers 20 kilometres beyond the c...
In 2016, India will commemorate the 50th anniversary of IR8, a specially engineered rice variety that spared much of Asia from starvation.
India marked the 50th anniversary of IR8 on November 21, 2016. IR8 is a high-yielding semi-dwarf rice variety developed in the early 1960s by the International Ric...
Australian cricket coach and former player Justin Lee Langer AM was born on November 21, 1970.
Australian cricket coach and former player Justin Lee Langer AM was born on November 21, 1970. He served as the men's national team coach of Australia from May 2018 until February 2022, when he...
Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 on his route to India on the first journey from Europe.
Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope on his way to India for the first time in 1497. He was the first European to sail to In...
Lee Harvey Oswald killed US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a pres...
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona establishes a new La Liga goal scoring record of 253 in 2014.
Lionel Messi scored a hat trick in Barcelona's 5-1 win over Sevilla on November 22, 2014, to break the Spanish league's all-time scoring record. Messi, alr...
Mulayam Singh Yadav, an Indian politician (Samajwadi Party), was born in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, in 1939.
Mulayam Singh Yadav is a well-known Indian politician who founded the Samajwadi Party. Mulayam Singh Yadav was born on November 22, 1939, in a poor peasant family,...
1967 Mark Ruffalo is an American actor who was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mark Ruffalo, born November 22, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, is an American actor who was a compelling performer in critically acclaimed movies and plays, thou...
In 1984 Scarlett Johansson, an American actress, was born in New York City.
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in New York City, New York, United States. She is an American actress and singer whose acting range has earned he...
In 1718, Blackbeard, a famed English pirate, is killed in combat at the age of 38.
In his own time, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718) was a legend. He was born in England and robbed ships moving to and from the American colonies, as...
Bikram Singh, the Indian Lt-General in Kashmir, died in 1963.
Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, PVSM, who died on November 22, 1963, was an Indian Army General Officer. When he died in the Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter cr...
Kate Winslet married assistant film director Jim Threapleton in 1998 at All Saints Church in Reading, England.
On November 22, 1998, the actress Kate Winslet married fiance Jim Threapleton in a low-key wedding at her family's local church in Reading, Berkshire.Read More
Billie Jean King, an American tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles championships and 39 Grand Slams, was born in Long Beach, California in 1943.
Billie Jean King (born) Billie Jean Moffitt, born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States, is an American tennis player whose influence and play...
In 2018, Justin Bieber, a Canadian artist, announced his marriage to American model Hailey Baldwin.
On November 23, 2018, Justin Bieber confirmed his marriage to model Hailey Baldwin, posting the ultimate status update on social media two months after it was repo...
In the year 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist, mathematician, and writer, died at the age of 78.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a pioneering Indian scientist who demonstrated through experimentation that animals and plants have many similarities. He showed that...
Roald Dahl, a British novelist and Spy, died in 1990 at the age of 74.
Roald Dahl was a British writer who died on November 23, 1990, in Oxford, England. He was a popular author of inventive, irreverent children's books. C.S. Fore...
Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian yogi and philosopher, was born in 1926.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba was born on November 23, 1926, in the extreme south of India. Sri Sathya Sai was a great healer, clairvoyant, and miracle worker, as well as a ...
Miley Cyrus, an American actress and singer, was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1992.
Miley Cyrus, full name Destiny Hope Cyrus, was born November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, and is an American singer and actress whose performan...
Robert Johnson's first recording session with producer Don Law took place in 1936 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
On November 23, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas, Robert Johnson had his first recording session. Don Law, the producer of Vocalion, oversaw the recording sessions, whi...
Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, publishes "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, fundamentally transforming the understanding of evolution and establishing the groundwork for evolutionary biology.
On the Origin of Species (or, more precisely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life...
In 1926, Sri Aurobindo retires to a life of solitude, leaving Mirra Alfassa in charge of his disciples (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)
The transformation of human life into divine life in divine body was the major topic of his vision. He believed in a spiritual awakening that not only emancipated ...
Ted Bundy, an American serial killer during the 1970s, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946.
Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Vermont, United States of America, as Theodore Robert Cowell. Elanor Louise Cowell was his mother's name, while his...
Arundhati Roy, an Indian activist and writer, was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, in 1961.
Arundhati Roy was born to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father in Shillong, Meghalaya. She grew up in the Kerala town of Aymanam. At the a...
In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, the American murderer of JFK two days previously, was shot dead two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on television at 24.
Oswald was shot and murdered by Jack Ruby, the proprietor of a nightclub, on November 24, while being carried from the police station to the county prison through ...
1991 Freddie Mercury, originally Farrokh Bulsara, is a British singer-songwriter and member of the band Queen who died of AIDS at the age of 45.
Freddie's battle with AIDS ended on November 24th, 1991, when he died little over 24 hours after publicly announcing his diagnosis. The passing of rock's m...
Brandon Routh, the star from "Superman Returns," married actress Courtney Ford in 2007 at the gorgeous El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.
Brandon proposed to his three-year girlfriend, actress Courtney Ford, on August 23, 2006. On November 24, 2007, the pair married in Santa Barbara's El Capitan ...
Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American racing car racer and automobile pioneer, was born in 1920. Diego Maradona, an Argentine soccer striker, died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Gaston Chevrolet, a race driver from Los Angeles, is died in a track collision. He is the first of three renowned brothers to die in a sad accident. Gaston was Lou...
Karl Benz, German inventor, engine designer, and Mercedes-Benz automotive maker, was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, in 1844.
Karl Benz, a German inventor, is one of several people credited with inventing the first vehicle. He designed the motorised tricycle in 1885, which became the firs...
Lionel Messi becomes the all-time leading scorer in the UEFA Champions League in 2014.
Lionel Messi became the all-time leading scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League on November 25, 2014, with 72 goals. On Matchday 4, the Barcelona star ...
Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, unlocks Tutankhamun's nearly undamaged tomb in Egypt in 1922.
The tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died in 1323 BC at the age of roughly 18, was found late in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter in Egypt's Valley ...
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008: Ten coordinated strikes by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure over 250 people in Mumbai, India.
The Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 were a series of terrorist assaults that took place in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, on November 26, 2008. The assaults were car...
Verghese Kurien, an Indian engineer, was born in Calicut, India, in 1921.
Dr. Verghese Kurien was born on November 26, 1921, in Calicut, Kerala, to an aristocratic Syrian Christian family. Years later, seeing these people's struggle ...
Arjun Rampal, an Indian actor, was born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.
Arjun Rampal, a former model turned actor and producer, rose to prominence after appearing in Rajiv Rai's romance drama Pyaar Ishq aur Mohabbat in 2001. Howeve...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was born on Nov 26 in 1983
Chris Hughes, an American businessman and author, was born on November 26, 1983. He co-founded Facebook and served as its spokesperson from its inception until 2007. From 2012 until 2016, he served...
Bruce Lee, a Chinese-American martial artist and actor, was born in San Francisco, California, in 1940.
Bruce Jun Fan Lee was born in San Francisco, California in 1940, when his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. Bruce Lee, who was reared in Hong Kong, was ...
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, an American rock guitarist, was born in Seattle, Washington in 1942.
Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of the most inventive and influential artists of the twentieth century, was a forerunner of the electric guitar's explosiv...
Suresh Raina, an Indian cricketer (Gujarat Lions, Chennai Super Kings), was born in Muradnagar, India, in 1986.
Fans may remember Suresh Kumar Raina as the first Indian to score a century in all three versions of the game. Raina, who was born on November 27, 1986, is a left-...
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the seventh Prime Minister of India, died in 2008 at the age of 77.
The 77-year-old statesman, who had been suffering blood cancer and renal failure for more than 17 years, died in the city's Apollo Hospital, where he was being...
Eugene O'Neill, an American writer, died of cerebellar cortical atrophy at the age of 65 in 1953.
Eugene O'Neill was a major American theatrical dramatist. Four of his plays received the Pulitzer Prize. His major concern was the grief and pain that sensitiv...
William Shakespeare, a playwright and poet, marries Anne Hathaway in 1582.
In November 1582, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, with whom he stayed married until Shakespeare's death in 1616. William was 18 when they married, a...
The "Chicago Times-Herald" organised America's first auto race in 1895 From Chicago to Evanston and back; 6 vehicles, 55 miles, Frank Duryea wins averaging 7 MPH.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1895, he drove this car in America's inaugural automotive race. The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored the race, which covered a ...
Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar was born Nov 28, 1986
Prateik Babbar is an Indian actor and martial artist who primarily works in Hindi-language movies. He was born&n...
Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, introduces Pong, the first commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California in 1972.
On November 29, 1972, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, the modern video game business was established. The game was Pong, which had recently bee...
Chadwick Boseman, an American actor (Black Panther), was born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1976.
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born on November 29, 1976 he was an actor and playwright from the United States. He began working continuously as a writer, director, an...
JRD Tata, an Indian businessman, died in 1993 at the age of 89.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904 – November 29, 1993) was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, and Tata Group chairman. His mother wa...
Rajiv Dixit, an Indian physicist and Swadeshi movement pioneer, died in 2010. (b. 1967)
Rajiv Dixit was an activist who lived from November 30, 1967, until November 30, 2010. He was the national secretary of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust and an outspoken...
George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the 43rd Vice President of the United States, died in 2018 at the age of 94.
George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his Houston home on November 30, 2018, after a struggle with vascular Parkinson's disease. ...
Paul Walker, an American actor, died in an automobile accident in 2013 at the age of 40.
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor who lived from September 12, 1973 to November 30, 2013. He is most recognised for his part in the Fast & Furious f...
Jonathan Swift, an Irish author and satirist, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667.
Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Angli...
Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian physicist, polymath, and writer, was born in Munshiganj, British India, in 1858.
Jagdish Chandra Bose was a world-renowned Indian scientist. He was the first to demonstrate that plants and metals, like humans, had feelings. Jagdish Chandra Bose...
Mark Twain, alias Samuel Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. On November 30th, 1835, he was born....
Kaley Cuoco, an American actress (The Big Bang Theory), was born in Camarillo, California in 1985.
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress and producer who was born on November 30, 1985. She earned her breakout role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC comedy 8 S...
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II and author, was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Winston Churchill, born on November 30, 1874, was a British leader who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and a...
Nagaland is admitted to the Indian Union as a state in 1963.
Nagaland, a picturesque north-eastern highland state, was established on December 1, 1963. Over the course of 150 years, a convoluted (and at times contentious) se...
Sherlock Holmes first appears in literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's "Study in Scarlet" in 1887.
Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer, developed the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christma...
Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country in 1988. (Pakistan)
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996, respectively. She was ...
Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, was born in Rionegro, Colombia, in 1949.
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who founded and led the Medelln Cartel. Escoba...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian diplomat and politician, died in 1990 at the age of 90.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be selected as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her ...
Jackie Chan marries actress Lin Feng-jiao in Los Angeles in 1982.
Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, director, martial artist, and stuntman who is noted for his comedic acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and inventive stunts,...
In 2018, singer Nick Jonas (26) and actress Priyanka Chopra (36) married in Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan Palace.
Priyanka Chopra, a Bollywood actress, and Nick Jonas, a singer, were married on December 1, 2018. Their three-day wedding included both Christian and Hindu wedding...
Ip Man, a Chinese martial artist and master instructor of Wing Chun, died in 1972 at the age of 79.
Ip Man, also known as Yip Man died on 2nd December 1972. He was a Chinese martial artist who was a grandmaster of the Wing Chun martial art. He taught a numbe...
Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug kingpin, was shot dead by Colombian police in 1993, at the age of 44.
The Medelln Cartel was founded and led by Pablo Emilio Escobar, a Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist. Escobar, dubbed "The King of Cocaine," is the ...
Indra Lal Roy, an Indian World War I flying ace, was born in Calcutta, British India, in 1898.
On 2 December 1898, Indra Lal Roy was born. He was born in Calcutta, where his father was a barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions, as the second son of Pie...
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (Versace), was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy in 1946.
Giovanni "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman who was born on December 2, 1946. Versace, a worldwide luxury fashion brand tha...
Lucy Liu, an American actress (Ally McBeal), was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York in 1968.
Lucy Liu is an American actress, producer, and artist who has worked in both television and cinema. She was born on December 2, 1968. She has two SAG Awards, a Cri...
Britney Spears, an American popstar, was born in McComb, Mississippi in 1981.
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was born on December 2, 1981. She is known as the "Princess of Music" because she i...
General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony presided over by Pope Pius VII.
Napoleon I was the French Emperor from 1804 through 1814, and again in 1815. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon controlled European and global events for more th...
King C. Gillette begins marketing safety razor blades in 1901.
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who lived from January 5, 1855 to July 9, 1932. He created a popular version of the safety razor. Before Gille...
United Arab Emirates, which was established as a federation on December 2, 1971
The United Arab Emirates, also known as the UAE or the Emirates, is a nation in the eastern section of the Arabian Peninsula that is situated on the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf coasts, respective...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
