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…
On December 22, 1998, Zinedine Zidane received the 1998 Ballon d'Or
On December 22, 1998, Zinedine Zidane received the 1998 Ballon d'Or, which is given annually to the finest football player in Europe as determined by a jury of sports writers from UEFA member n...
Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru of Sikhism, the creator and General of Khalsa, a social reformist and poet, was born in Patna Sahib, India, in 1666.
Guru Gobind Singh, also known as Gobind Rai, was the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet, and philosopher who was born on December 22, 1666. At the ...
Kunal Nayyar, the Indian actor from "The Big Bang Theory," married Miss India 2006 winner Neha Kapur in New Delhi, India in 2011.
Kunal Nayyar is an Indian actor of English origin. He played Raj Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and Vijay on the Nickelodeon animated series...
Jimmy Fallon, a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and "Tonight Show" host, married Hollywood producer Nancy Juvonen on Necker Island in the Caribbean in 2007.
James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is a comedian, television host, and actor from the United States. He is most known for his work on Saturday Night Liv...
Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle in Scotland in 2000.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, born August 16, 1958, is a singer-songwriter and actor from the United States. She is widely regarded as one of the most important individu...
Samuel Beckett, an Irish-French writer, died in 1989 at the age of 83.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was a novelist, dramatist, short storey writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator fro...
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who discovered number theory, was born in Erode, British India, in 1887.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy who lived in India. He made significant contributions to number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continuing ...
Tsunami strikes Indonesia's Sunda Strait in 2018, killing over 400 people as a portion of the Anak Krakatoa volcano collapses into the sea.
The 2018 Sunda strait tsunami struck on 22 December 2018 at about 21:38 local time, when major portions of Anak Krakatoa's southwestern flank crashed onto its ...
Neeraj Chopra, an Indian athlete, was born in Panipat, Haryana, India in 1997.
Neeraj Chopra VSM (born December 24, 1997) is a track and field athlete from India who competes in the javelin throw. World Athletics has him rated second in the w...
Rabindranath Tagore establishes Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1921.
Visva Bharati University, one of India's most prestigious universities, is marking its 100th anniversary of its founding. Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel laureate...
In 1912, Rash Behari Bose led the Indian revolutionary underground in Bengal and Punjab in an attempt to kill Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge by putting a handmade bomb into the Viceroy's Howdah during a ceremonial parade in Delhi.
On December 23, 1912, a bomb was hurled at Viceroy Lord Hardinge as his procession left Chandni Chowk. In the attempt, the Viceroy was injured, but his Mahavat was...
After a dispute with fellow painter Paul Gauguin in 1888, Vincent van Gogh slices off his left ear with a razor and gives it to a prostitute for safekeeping.
For years, historians have been fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's ear, prompting them to devise a variety of ideas as to why the 19th century Dutch artist slice...
1902 Charan Singh, Indian politician and the fifth Prime Minister of India, was born in the British Indian district of Noorpur.
Between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980, Chaudhary Charan Singh was India's 5th Prime Minister. Historians and ordinary people alike regard to him as the "...
P. V. Narasimha Rao, the ninth Prime Minister of India, died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 83.
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (June 28, 1921 – December 23, 2004) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as India's ninth Prime Minister fro...
Tom Cruise married actress Nicole Kidman in 1990.
On the set of their film Days of Thunder, Cruise met his second wife, actress Nicole Kidman. On December 24, 1990, the pair married. Isabella Jane and Connor Anton...
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and viceroy of Cochin, dies at the age of 55 in 1524.
Vasco da Gama is primarily remembered for becoming the first person to sail from Europe to India by circumnavigating Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Da Gama landed...
Howard Hughes, an American reclusive millionaire, filmmaker, and aviator, was born in Humble, Texas in 1905.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr., born December 24, 1905, was a commercial entrepreneur, investor, record-setting aviator, engineer, film director, and philanthropist who ...
Anil Kapoor, an Indian producer and actor, was born in Bombay, India in 1959.
Anil Kapoor (born December 24, 1956) is an Indian film producer and actor who has acted in over a hundred Hindi-language films as well as international films and t...
Mohammed Rafi, an Indian actor and playback singer, was born in Kotla Sultan Singh, India, in 1925.
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian cinema playback vocalist who was born on December 24, 1924. He is regarded as one of the best and most influential Indian subcontinent ...
Matthew Arnold, an English poet and critic, was born in Laleham, England in 1822.
Matthew Arnold, born on December 24, 1822, was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as a school inspector. He was the son of Rugby School's famed hea...
Justin Trudeau, Canada's 23rd Prime Minister, was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1971.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who has served as the country's 23rd and current prime minister since November 20...
Ravish Malhotra, an Indian cosmonaut, was born in 1943.
Ravish Malhotra (born December 25, 1943 in Lahore, British India) is a retired Indian Air Force Air Commodore. He was an Air Force test pilot stationed at the Bang...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician and the country's tenth Prime Minister, was born in Gwalior, India, in 1924.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, born December 25, 1924, was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India three times, first for 13 days in 1996, then for 13 mo...
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, an Indian, who founded Banaras Hindu University was born in 1861.
Madan Mohan Malaviya, born 25 December 1861, was an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and politician best known for his participation in the Indian independenc...
Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England, in 1642.
Sir Isaac Newton, born 25 December 1642, was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (dubbed a "natural philosopher" at t...
George Michael, an English singer-songwriter and pop sensation, died in 2016 at the age of 53 from suspected heart failure.
George Michael, born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, was an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was a major pop performer in the 1980s and 1990s, win...
In 2006, at the age of 73, James Brown, the American R&B, gospel, soul, and funk vocalist regarded as 'The Godfather of Soul,' died of heart failure.
James Joseph Brown was a well-known American musician who made significant contributions to the development of several musical genres, including soul music, funk m...
Charlie Chaplin, a British actor and comedian, died in Switzerland in 1977 at the age of 88.
Charlie Chaplin, the film actor, director, and writer, was one of cinema's most creative inventors. His portrayal of "the tramp," a sympathetic comed...
C. Rajagopalachari, India's liberation warrior and the country's first Governor General, died in 1972 at the age of 94.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was a distinguished Indian politician, freedom fighter, statesman, and lawyer. He was India's last Governor-General and the first I...
In the Caribbean in 2012, "Arrow" star Stephen Amell marries America's Next Top Model candidate Cassandra Jean.
Cassandra Jean Whitehead went on to work in television, where she had numerous minor roles, most notably on One Tree Hill, Mad Men, and Arrow. But it's in love...
Jerry Seinfeld marries Jessica Sklar, a public relations expert, in 1999.
Jerry Seinfeld, whose sitcom character had a phobia of commitment, married Jessica Sklar, 28, on Saturday in a private ceremony attended by close friends and famil...
Thomas Edison marries his first wife in 1871, Mary Stilwell
Edison had spotted the 16-year-old putting holes in telegraph tape. On December 25, 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married Mary Stilwell, a 16-year-old employee at...
Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian criminal lord, was born in Khed, Ratnagiri, India in 1955.
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar was born on December 27, 1955, in Khed, a tiny village in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri region. His father, Ibrahim Kaskar, was a police office...
J. K. Rowling married anesthesiologist Neil Murray in Aberfeldy, Scotland, in 2001.
On December 26, 2001, J.K. Rowling married her lover Dr Neil Murray in a covert Boxing Day ceremony at her new residence. The 36-year-old billionaire married Murra...
Shaquille O'Neal, a Los Angeles Lakers centre, married Shaunie Nelson in 2002 at The Beverly Hills Hotel's Crystal Garden.
The Lakers' centre Shaquille O'Neal attempted to keep the site of his post-Christmas wedding ceremony with longtime girlfriend Shaunie Nelson a secret. She...
Kit Harington, aka Christopher Catesby Harington, was born in London, England in 1986.
Christopher Catesby Harington, better known as Kit Harington, was born on December 26, 1986, in London, United Kingdom. Deborah Jane, his mother, was a writer. Sir...
Mao Zedong, the Chinese revolutionary and former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was born in Shaoshan, Hunan, in 1893.
On December 26, 1893, the Mao family, rich farmers in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, welcomed a son. They gave the kid the name Mao Zedong. The father of modern ...
Jared Leto, an American actor, was born in Bossier City, Louisiana in 1971.
Jared Joseph Leto was born on December 26, 1971, in Louisiana, United States. His parents split when he was quite young, thus he had a tough upbringing. Constance,...
Salman Khan, an Indian actor, was born in Indore, India in 1965.
Salman Khan (born December 27, 1965) is a Hindi film actor, film producer, musician, painter, and television personality. Khan has garnered various prizes over his...
Mirza Ghalib, an Indian poet, was born in 1796.
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, also known by the pen names Ghalib and Asad, was an Indian poet who was born on December 27, 1797. Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula was his ...
Gustave Eiffel, the French engineer in chief of the Eiffel Tower, died in 1923 at the age of 91.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a civil engineer from France. He gained his mark as a graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures with many bridges...
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's 12th Prime Minister and the first female leader of a Muslim country, was murdered by a suicide bomber in Rawalpindi in 2007.
Benazir Bhutto was the first Muslim woman to head a country. On December 27, 2007, a 15-year-old suicide bomber named Bilal assassinated Bhutto. She had barely com...
Chris Hemsworth married Spanish actress Elsa Pataky in Indonesia in 2010.
In early 2010, Chris Hemsworth began dating Spanish model and actress Elsa Pataky, whom he met through mutual representation. Pataky and Hemsworth married on Decem...
Stan Lee, or Stanley Martin Lieber, an American comic-book artist, writer, and the creative boss of the Marvel multimedia conglomerate, was born in New York City in 1922.
Stan Lee was born in New York on December 28, 1922 to Celia and Jack Lieber. His father was a garment cutter who struggled to find employment following the Great D...
The year was 1954. Denzel Washington is a well-known American actor who was born in Mount Vernon, New York.
Denzel Washington was born on December 28, 1954, to Denzel Hayes Washington Sr., a Pentecostal pastor, and Lennis, a beautician. He has two brothers and sisters. D...
Arun Jaitley, an Indian politician, was born in 1952.
On December 28, 1952, Arun Jaitley was born to Maharaj Kishen Jaitley and Ratan Prabha Jaitley. Arun Jaitley was born into a family of attorneys, social activists,...
Ratan Tata, an Indian businessman, founded Tata Steel in 1937.
He was born in Surat, India, on December 28, 1937, to Naval Tata and Sonoo. Naval Tata was the adoptive son of Jamsetji Tata and Ratanji Tata. The Tata Group of Co...
Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian businessman, was born in 1932.
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, better known as Dhirubhai Ambani, was an Indian business mogul who created Reliance Industries on December 28, 1932. Ambani took Relian...
Reid Hoffman and others establish LinkedIn in Mountain View, California in 2002.
LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking site The website was launched in 2002 and is based in Mountain View, California. LinkedIn was developed in 2003 by ...
Jude Law, an English actor, was born in London in 1972.
Jude Law, the future actor, was born on December 29, 1972, in Lewisham, London, England. Law was raised in South London by his parents, both of whom were schooltea...
Rajesh Khanna, the Indian Bollywood actor dubbed "The First Superstar of Indian Cinema," was born in Amritsar, Punjab Province, in 1942.
Jatin Khanna, a Punjabi, was born on December 29, 1942, in Amritsar, and was adopted by parents who already had three daughters. Rajesh Khanna was an Indian Bollyw...
Pierre Cardin, an Italian-French fashion designer, dies at the age of 98 in 2020.
Iconic French designer Pierre Cardin, known for his avant-garde fashions in the 1960s and 1970s, died on December 29, 2020, at the age of 98. The French Academy of...
Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, was hung in Baghdad in 2006 at the age of 69.
Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging on the morning of Eid al-Adha, December 30, 2006, for crimes against humanity. It is a day that will live on in the minds of...
Grigori Rasputin, a Russian monk and companion of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, was killed by reactionary Russian aristocracy in 1916 at the age of 47.
The assassination of Rasputin, Russia's iconic "Mad Monk," provides fuel for a wonderful historical storey that combines truth and mythology. However...
LeBron James, an American basketball player, was born in Akron, Ohio in 1984.
LeBron James was born on December 30, 1984, in Akron, Ohio, to Gloria Marie James and ex-convict Anthony McClelland. Gloria raised him on her alone because his fat...
Tiger Woods, an American golfer, was born in Cypress, California in 1975.
Tiger Woods was born Eldrick Woods in Cypress, California, on December 30, 1975. Earl and Kultida Woods raised him as their only child. His parents recognised his ...
Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, was born in Bombay, British India, in 1865.
Rudyard Kipling, an English poet and story writer, was one of the earliest masters of the short tale in English, and he was the first to utilise Cockney accent in ...
Subhash Chandra Bose waves the Indian independence flag in Port Blair in 1943.
Subhash Chandra Bose raised the Tricolour for the first time on free Indian soil on December 30, 1943, at the Cellular Jail in Port Blair during his visit to Andam...
Marie Curie earns her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her work with radioactivity.
Marie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for discovering the elements polonium and radium, which she discovered using procedures she created for isolati...
Anthony Hopkins, a Welsh actor, was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales in 1937.
Philip Anthony Hopkins was born in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales on December 31, 1937. Anthony Hopkins is widely recognised as one of the best actors living, having e...
Ben Kingsley, an English actor, was born in Scarborough, England in 1943.
Ben Kingsley was born on December 31, 1943, in North Riding of Yorkshire, England, as Krishna Pandit Bhanji. Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, his father, was a medical pra...
Will Smith, an American rapper and actor known as "The Fresh Prince," marries actress Jada Pinkett Smith in Baltimore, Maryland in 1997.
Will Smith married Jada Koren Pinkett Smith in 1997. They met when Pinkett attended an audition for the role of Smith's character's girlfriend in The Fresh...
