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Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched into orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia, in 1975.
India's first unmanned Earth satellite, Aryabhata. It was named after a prominent 5th century Indian astronomer and mathematician. The satellite was built in P...
Tippu Sultan forces the British out of Bednore, India, in 1783.
Tipu Sultan led his force of almost 100,000 soldiers west and managed to get within 6 kilometres of Bednore by April 9th. Matthews' forces were quickly beaten ...
Anna Hazare halted his fast to death in 2011 when the government agreed to establish Lokpal legislation.
On 5 April 2011, Hazare began a hunger strike to put pressure on the Indian government to implement a harsh anti-corruption law, The Lokpal Bill, 2011, as anticipa...
His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005.
Charles and Camilla confirmed their engagement in February 2005, 35 years after they first met. There was much discussion over Camilla's title and whether she ...
Kristen Stewart, an American actress, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1990.
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is a film and television actress from the United States. She was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2012, and she...
Hugh Hefner, an American magazine publisher and businessman, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926.
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was a magazine publisher in the United States. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy mag...
In 2021, Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh and consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 99.
On the morning of April 9, 2021, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth states, and the w...
Jaya Bachchan, an Indian cinema actress and politician, was born in 1948.
Jaya Bachchan is an Indian actress and politician who was born on April 9, 1948. She has been a Rajya Sabha member of the Samajwadi Party since 2004, and has serve...
Ghanshyam Das Birla, an Indian businessman and educator, was born in Pilani, Rajputana, India in 1894.
Ghanshyam Das Birla was a businessman from India and a member of the Birla family. Ghanshyam Das Birla was born on 10 April 1894 in Pilani, Jhunjhunu district, Raj...
In 2019, The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first-ever snapshot of a black hole, obtained in 2017 in galaxy M87, 6.5 billion times the mass of Earth, 55 million light-years distant.
A gargantuan beast is devouring anything that strays too close to the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87, more than 50 million light-years away. ...
Titanic, the world's most renowned ship, set sail from Southampton, England, on her first and last journey in 1912.
Titanic, also known as the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank during its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York C...
Swami Dayanand Saraswati, contemporary India's foremost social reformer, founded Arya Samaj in 1875.
Swami Dayanand founded the Arya Samaj in Bombay on April 7, 1875, with ten principles that are beautifully based purely on God, soul, and nature. Arya Samaj (Sansk...
Morarji Desai, an Indian independence activist who served as India's fourth Prime Minister from 1977 to 1979, died in 1995.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, who lived from 29 February 1896 to 10 April 1995, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as India's fourth Pri...
Ayesha Takia, an Indian film actress who acted in Bollywood films, was born in 1986.
Ayesha Takia Azmi (born April 10, 1986) is a former Indian actress best known for her roles in Hindi films. In 2004, she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for her ...
Sanjeev Kapoor, an Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur, and television personality, was born in 1964.
Sanjeev Kapoor (born 10 April 1964) is a well-known Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur, and TV personality. Kapoor hosted the popular TV show Khana Khazana, Asia&...
Rishikesh's Lakshman Jhula was accessible to the public in 1930.
Lakshman Jhula is a suspension bridge that spans the Ganges. In 1930, the public could visit Rishikesh's Lakshman Jhula. It is 5 kilometres north-east of Rishi...
Today! The International Labour Organization was established in 1919.
In 1919, the International Labour Organization was founded. The International Labour Organization (ILO), headquartered in Geneva, was the UN's first specialise...
Ravindra Kaushik was a purported Indian Research and Analysis expert, famous for infiltrating Pakistan Army was born today
Ravindra Kaushik was born on April 11, 1952, and died in November 2001. He worked for the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). He is famously known as Black Tige...
Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political leader and Mohandas Gandhi's wife, was born in 1869.
Kasturbai Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian political activist who was born Kasturbai Gokuldas Kapadia on 11 April 1869 and died on 22 February 1944. In 1883, she marr...
Jyotirao Phule was born in Maharashtra in 1827. He was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer, and writer.
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was born on April 11, 1827, and died on November 28, 1890. He was a Maharashtra-born Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social re...
Tennis star Roger Federer marries former WTA tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec in Basel, Switzerland in 2009.
Roger Federer is married to Miroslava Federer (née Vavrinec), a former Women's Tennis Association player whom he met while competing for Switzerland at ...
Hugh Jackman marries actress Deborra-Lee Furness in St. John's in Toorak, Victoria in 1996.
On 11 April 1996, Hugh Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness at St. John's in Toorak, Victoria, a Melbourne suburb. They first met on the set of the Australian t...
In Williamstown, Massachusetts, Superman actor Christopher Reeve marries actress and singer Dana Morosini in 1992.
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, director, and activist best known for his role as Superman in the 1978 film Superman and its first three seque...
Sumitra Mahajan, an Indian politician and the Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha, was born in 1943.
Sumitra Mahajan, born on April 12, 1943, is an Indian politician who served as Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata ...
Rana Sanga, an Indian monarch of Mewar and the leader of a strong Rajput union in Rajputana, was born in 1482.
Sangram Singh I, also known as Rana Sanga, was a Sisodia dynasty king who reigned from 1482 to 1528 CE. He ruled Mewar, the traditional Guhila (Sisodia) territory ...
Guru Gobind Singh Ji founded the Khalsa Panth in 1699, and Baisakhi is celebrated throughout Sikhism to commemorate this.
Guru Gobind Singh Ji established the Khalsa Panth in Anandpur Sahib in 1699. Khalsas are Sikhs who have completed the Guru Gobind Singh-initiated Amrit Ceremony. W...
Satish Kaushik, an Indian film producer, director, and actor who works largely in Hindi cinema and theatre, was born in 1956.
Satish Kaushik (born April 13, 1956) is an Indian film director, producer, and actor who works primarily in Hindi cinema and theatre. As a film actor, he is best k...
Today, in 2022 Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt got Married
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt married on April 14 in front of their families and close friends. The entire world is aware that Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are marr...
In 1964, The Mustang had its public appearance
The result was one of the most massive automotive and commercial debuts in history. The Mustang, which had been under development since 1961, was launched through ...
At 11.40 p.m. in 1912, the RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.
Titanic is one of the world's most famous ships. It was famous for its luxury and colossal size, but one fateful day The R.M.S. Titanic collided with a massive...
John Wilkes Booth shoots US President Abraham Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the evening of April 14, 1865, while watching a special performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin." At...
B. R. Ambedkar was born in 1891, and he was an Indian jurist, economist, politician, and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, and Dalit leader who lived from 14 April 1891 to 6 December 1956. He headed the committee drafting the Cons...
Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. in 1865 after being in a coma for eight hours.
Major Henry Rathbone, Lincoln's visitor, briefly wrestled with Booth, but Booth stabbed him and fled. Lincoln was brought across the street to Petersen House a...
In 1948, when the Indian province of Himachal Pradesh was founded.
Himachal Day is a public holiday in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is usually observed on the 15th of April. Himachal Pradesh was established as an India...
The year was 1982. Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He was born to Sandy Belogus, a social worker, and Mark Rogen, a non-profit worker. He only has one sister. Seth Rogen, the actor who made audiences laugh with his...
Emma Watson, an English actress, was born in Paris, France in 1990.
Emma Watson is a British actress and model who played 'Hermione Granger,' the know-it-all cherubic sidekick in the Harry Potter film trilogy. When she deci...
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism and the first Sikh Guru, was born in 1469 in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Guru Nanak founded Sikhism, one of the world's youngest religions. Guru Nanak was the first Sikh Guru, and his spiritual teachings provided the groundwork for ...
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, physicist, and visionary, was born in 1452 in Vinci, Florence, Italy.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, recognised as one of history's most creative and imaginative geniuses, was born in 1452 in a hamlet near the Tuscan town of Vin...
In 1979, Luke Evans an actor and singer was born
Luke Evans is a well-known Welsh actor best recognised for his role in the 2010 adaptation of the 1981 classic 'Clash of the Titans.' He is also well-known...
Guru Arjan, the first of the two Gurus killed in the Sikh faith, was born in 1563
Guru Arjan Dev gathered writings to form Guru Granth Sahib, the eleventh and living Guru. He is also known as Shahido ka Sartaj, or the martyr's crown. He was ...
Mandira Bedi, an Indian actress, fashion designer, and television presenter, was born in 1972.
Mandira was born on April 15, 1972, in a Punjabi-speaking Bedi family in Bombay. Her mother's name is Gita, and her father's name is Verinder. She attended...
Marie Tussaud, the French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum, died in 1850 at the age of 88.
Marie Tussaud was a renowned French wax-modeling artist, the creator of London's famed 'Madam Tussauds wax museum,' and one of the nineteenth century&#...
Akon, a Senegalese American singer-songwriter and producer, was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1973.
Akon was born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam on April 16, 1973, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, to traditional jazz musician Mor Thiam and dancer Kine Thiam. Akon i...
Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel winner, died in 1955 at the age of 76 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who lived from 14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influe...
Martin Lawrence, an American comedian, was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1965.
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is a comedian, actor, and producer from the United States. Lawrence rose to prominence in the 1990s, establishing ...
Charlie Chaplin, a British actor and comedian, was born in London, England in 1889.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to prominence during th...
Wilbur Wright, an American aviator, was born in Millville, Indiana in 1867.
Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer who is widely regarded as having invented, built, and flown the world's fi...
The first passenger rail service in India begins in 1853, running from Bori Bunder in Bombay to Thane.
Indian Railways has a history that spans back more than 160 years. The first passenger train travelled between Bori Bunder and Thane, a 34-kilometer distance, on A...
Lara Dutta, an Indian actress, model, and Miss Universe 2000 winner, was born in 1978.
Lara Dutta, born 16 April 1978, is an Indian actress, entrepreneur, and Miss Universe 2000 winner. She previously held the title of Miss Intercontinental 1997. She...
Today in 2011 "Game of Thrones," based on George R. R. Martin's epic books, starts on HBO.
It debuted on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and ended on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes spread across eight seasons. The first episode of Game of Thr...
Jennifer Garner, an American actress, was born in Houston, Texas in 1972.
Jennifer Ann Garner is a television and film actress, as well as a film producer, from the United States. She rose to prominence as a character in J.J. Abrams'...
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an Indian philosopher, educator, and statesman who served as India's first Vice President and second President, died in 1975.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, politician, philosopher, and statesman. He was India's first Vice President and then its second President. Rad...
Benjamin Franklin, a US Founding Father, inventor, diplomat, and writer, dies at the age of 84 in 1790.
Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84. His death was caused by empyema, which was caused by pleurisy bouts he experienced earlier in his life....
Siddharth Suryanarayan, an Indian cinema actor, was born in 1979.
Siddharth Suryanarayan, often known as Siddharth, is an Indian actor who has appeared in films in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu. Siddharth was born on April ...
1930 An armed pro-independence revolutionary headed by Surya Sen, widely known as Master-da, attempted an assault on the armoury of the police and auxiliary troops in Chittagong, Bengal region, British India.
The Chittagong armoury attack, also known as the Chittagong revolt, was an attempt on 18 April 1930 by armed Indian independence activists headed by Surya Sen to s...
Poonam Dhillon, an Indian Hindi-language cinema, theatre, and television actress and politician, was born in 1962.
Poonam Dhillon (born 18 April 1962) is an Indian politician and actress. She was a Femina Miss India in 1977 and is best known for her 1979 film Noorie. Dhillon ap...
The International Court of Justice was established in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1948.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the United Nations' primary judicial organ (UN). The United Nations Charter established it in June 1945, and it beg...
Tatya Tope, a leader of the 1857 First War of Independence, died in 1859.
Tantia Tope (February 16, 1814 – April 18, 1859) was a general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders. Tantia Tope is widely regarded...
