Carmen Electra, an American model and actress, was born in Sharonville, Ohio in 1972.
Carmen Electra, the blonde bombshell who shot to popularity after appearing in Playboy magazine with her provocative photos, was born Tara Leigh Patrick. She'd...
Andy Serkis, an English actor, was born in London, England in 1964.
Andy Serkis is a British actor and director best known for his voice work and appearances in CGI-animated and motion capture films. He is most recognised for his p...
Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany, was born in Austria-Hungary in 1889.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He is most known for being the head of the Nazi Party and for starting the Second World War. I...
Abhishek Bachchan, an Indian film actor and producer, married actress Aishwarya Rai in 2007.
Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor who is the son of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan; his elder sister is Shweta Bachchan-Nanda. He is married to Aishwarya Ra...
In 1526, Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat, establishing the Mughal Empire in India.
The First Battle of Panipat was fought between Babur's soldiers and Ibrahim Lodhi's forces. The battle took place on April 21, 1526. The employment of arti...
Volodymyr Zelensky, a Ukrainian comedian, wins the country's presidential election by a landslide in 2019.
On April 21, 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected President of Ukraine. Mr Zelensky has earned more than 73% of the vote with virtually all ballots tallied in the...
In the year 1977, Optical fibre was employed for telephonic communication for the first time today.
To avoid interference, the US government opted to connect the computers at NORAD's headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain using fibre optics. About 1.5 miles undern...
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was born in London, England in 1926.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of York's first child, was born on April 21, 1926, and was baptised in the chapel at Buckingham Palace. ...
Robbie Amell, a Canadian actor, was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1988.
Robbie Amell is a Canadian television and film actor best known for his roles as Stephen Jameson on The CW's 'The Tomorrow People' and Wesley Rush in t...
Shakuntala Devi, an Indian writer and mental calculator known as the "Human Computer," died in 2013 at the age of 83 due to consequences from serious respiratory ailments.
Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mathematician known colloquially as the "human computer." She was said to be able to perform complex mathematica...
James McAvoy, a Scottish actor, was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1979.
James McAvoy is a well-known Scottish actor who has appeared in films, television shows, and on stage. McAvoy, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, had his film debu...
Amber Heard, an American actress, was born in Austin, Texas in 1986.
Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is a film and television actress from the United States. Heard had her first starring role in the 2006 horror film All the ...
Chetan Bhagat, an Indian author and journalist, was born in 1974.
Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist who was born on April 22, 1974. In 2010, he was named to Time magazine's list of the World's 100 Most Influ...
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, was born in Neptune City, New Jersey in 1937.
John Joseph Nicholson, born April 22, 1937, is a retired American actor and filmmaker with a career spanning more than 50 years. He is well-known for playing a var...
Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb and an American theoretical physicist, was born in New York City in 1904.
J. Robert Oppenheimer who lived from April 22, 1904 to February 18, 1967 was an American theoretical physicist and University of California, B...
Since 1970, every year today is celebrated as Earth Day
Every year on April 22, Earth Day commemorates the beginning of the contemporary environmental movement in 1970. It may be difficult to believe that prior to 1970,...
Manoj Bajpayee, an Indian film actor who mostly works in Hindi cinema, was born in 1969.
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also known as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi films but has also appeared in Telugu and Tamil fi...
In the year 2005, A video was published to YouTube for the first time today.
On April 23, 2005, at 8:31:52 p.m. PDT, or April 24, 2005, at 03:31:52 UTC, the video "Me at the Zoo" was uploaded to YouTube for the first time. It show...
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, was born at Stratford upon Avon in 1564.
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was a playwright, poet, and actor from England. He is widely regarded as the greatest English-language wr...
John Cena, an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor, was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts in 1977.
John Felix Anthony Cena, born April 23, 1977, is a professional wrestler, actor, and former rapper from the United States who is currently signed to WWE. He is wid...
Kal Penn, an American actor and public servant, was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1977.
Kal Penn was born Kalpen Suresh Modi on April 23, 1977, in Montclaire, New Jersey, USA. Kal Penn is an Indian-American actor, chef, producer, and government servan...
Dev Patel, an English actor, was born in London, England in 1990.
Dev Patel was born on April 23, 1990, in Harrow, London, UK, to Raj Patel, an Indian-origin IT consultant, and Anita Patel, a care worker. Dev Patel is a well-know...
Satyajit Ray, an Indian director, died in 1992 at the age of 70.
Satyajit Ray, an Indian film director, was known for his sophisticated and profoundly affecting depictions of local family life. His works have a humane warmth, cr...
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, dies at the age of 52 in 1616.
William Shakespeare was a well-known English poet, dramatist, and actor who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. His birthday is most widely observed on April ...
Varun Dhawan, an Indian actor, was born in 1987.
Varun Dhawan was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on April 24, 1987. David Dhawan, his father, is a well-known film director. Karuna Dhawan is his mother's n...
Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricket batsman and captain, was born in Mumbai, India in 1973.
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer who was born in Bombay, Maharashtra on April 24, 1973. He is recognised as one of the top batters in the world...
Sur Singh, the Raja of the Marwar Kingdom, was born in 1571.
Sawai Raja Sur Singh, also known as Suraj Mal, was the Raja of the Marwar Kingdom from 24 April 1571 until 7 September 1619. His sister was Emperor Jahangir's ...
For the first time, color television transmission began in Delhi in 1982.
To commemorate the occasion, the state-owned television network shared the video above on its official Twitter account, which depicts its famed revolving logo &mda...
Arijit Singh, an Indian playback singer, was born in 1987.
Arijit Singh (born April 25, 1987) is an Indian singer-composer. He primarily sings in Hindi and Bengali, but he has also performed in a number of other Indian lan...
Al Pacino, an American actor, was born in New York City in 1940.
Alfredo James Pacino, born April 25, 1940, is a well-known American actor and director. Throughout his five-decade career, he has received numerous honours, includ...
Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered research on long-distance radio transmission, was born in Bologna, Italy in 1874.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer best known for developing the first practical...
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, was born in Lhari County, Tibet, in 1989.
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born on April 25, 1989, and is the 11th Panchen Lama of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognised and announced by the 14th Da...
Hari Singh, the last governing Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, died in 1961.
Maharaja Sir Hari Singh was the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir's final governing Maharaja. Hari Singh was Amar Singh and Bhotiali Chib's son. Followin...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, an actor and bodybuilder, married American journalist and newscaster Maria Shriver in 1986.
Schwarzenegger married Shriver in Hyannis, Massachusetts on April 26, 1986. The service was officiated by Rev. John Baptist Riordan at St. Francis Xavier Catholic ...
Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, dies of sickness at the age of 32 in 1920.
Despite having minimal formal math instruction, Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematics, including breakt...
Jet Li, a Chinese Singaporean actor and martial artist, was born in Beijing, China in 1963.
Jet Li was born on April 26, 1963, in Beijing, China, as Li Lianjie. He is the youngest of four siblings and was just two years old when his father died. Jet Li, o...
Melania Trump, a Slovenian-American model and Donald Trump's wife, was born in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, in 1970.
Melania Trump was born in Slovenia on April 26, 1970. She began what would soon become a hugely successful modelling career at the age of 16, appearing in several ...
Channing Tatum, an American actor, was born in Cullman, Alabama in 1980.
Channing Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama to Glenn and Kay Tatum. His father worked for a construction company, and his mother for an airline. Channing Tatum is ...
The first telegram was transmitted in India in 1854.
"Arrey Bhagyawan Dekho Taar Aya Hai!" was a typical conversation in many Indian families throughout the 1950s. Since the 1850s, the telegraph service, po...
The National Defence College was established in 1960.
The National Defence College (NDC), headquartered in New Delhi, is India's premier educational institution for the study and practise of national security and ...
Vinod Khanna, an Indian Bollywood actor, died in 2017 at the age of 70.
Vinod Khanna was a film actor turned politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Gurdaspur. In Peshawar, British India, he was born into a Punjabi Hindu ...
Samuel Morse, an American inventor and painter, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1791.
On April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Samuel F.B. Morse was born, the first child of famed geographer and Congregational clergyman Jedidiah Morse and E...
Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Italian dictator, was assassinated by communist partisans in 1945, at the age of 61.
Amilcare, Benito Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party from 29 July 1883 to 28 April 1945. From ...
The Marathas defeated the Afghans at the Battle of Attock in 1758 and took control of the city.
The Battle of Attock was fought on April 28, 1758, between the Maratha Empire and the Durrani Empire. The Marathas, led by Raghunathrao (Raghoba), won a decisive v...
Samantha Akkineni, an Indian actress, was born in 1987.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu (born 28 April 1987) is an Indian actress who primarily works in the Telugu and Tamil film industries. She has received four Filmfare Awards S...
Sharman Joshi, an Indian cinema and theatre actor, was born in 1979.
Sharman Joshi (born 28 April 1979) is an Indian actor and television presenter best known for his roles in Rang De Basanti, Golmaal, Dhol, and 3 Idiots . Joshi com...
Bhanu Athaiya, an Indian costume designer who has worked on over 100 films, was born in 1929.
Bhanu Athaiya (28 April 1929 – 15 October 2020) was an Indian painter and costume designer. She was the only woman in the Bombay Progressive Artists' Gro...
The Indian government said in 2018 that electricity has now reached every Indian hamlet.
At a time when the World Bank declared that India had the world's biggest un-electrified population, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to de...
Harper Lee, an American author, was born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926.
Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. Lee's father was a lawyer who also served in the Alabama State Legislature. Her mother was...
Jessica Alba, an American actress and entrepreneur, was born in Pomona, California in 1981.
Jessica Alba was born in Pomona, California on April 28, 1981 parents Catherine Louisa and Mark David Alba. Joshua, her younger brother, is her only sibling. Her m...
Penélope Cruz, a Spanish actress, was born in Madrid, Spain in 1974.
If you ask a movie enthusiast what the films 'Open Your Eyes,' 'The Girl of Your Dreams,' 'Vanilla Sky,' and 'Blow' have in common,...
Deepika Chikhalia, an Indian actress who rose to prominence as Devi Sita in Ramanand Sagar's blockbuster television series Ramayan, was born in 1965.
Dipika Chikhlia Topiwala is an Indian actress best known for her role as Devi Sita in Ramanand Sagar's television series Ramayan, as well as her work in other ...
On a steam-powered quadricycle, Georges Bouton wins the world's first motor race in 1887, in a 'test' organised by the French newspaper Le Velocipede.
According to historical sources, Georges Bouton "won the world's first motor race" on this day, April 29, 1887. But it was a hollow victory, and ther...
Ashish Nehra, an Indian cricket coach and former player, was born in 1979.
Ashish Nehra is a former Indian cricketer who was one of the country's top bowlers. He was born in Delhi on April 29, 1979. He bowls medium-fast with his left ...
Siddhant Chaturvedi, an Indian actor, was born in 1993.
Siddhant Chaturvedi (born 29 April 1993) is an Indian film actor who works primarily in Hindi films. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as a teenage cricketer in the Am...
Raja Ravi Varma, a well-known Indian painter and artist, was born in 1848.
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter and artist who lived from 29 April 1848 to 2 October 1906. He is regarded as one of the greatest painters in Indian art histo...
In 1769, Scottish engineer James Watt received a patent for a steam engine with a separate condenser.
Watt invented a separate condenser in 1765 to reduce the amount of waste produced by the Newcomen steam engine. Watt received a patent for the device in 1769. Watt...
Jerome Seinfeld, an American comedian and actor, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954.
Jerome Allen Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer from the United States. He is best known for his role as a semi-fic...
In the year 1957, Daniel Day-Lewis is an English actor who was born in London, England.
Daniel Michael Blake (Sir) Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor. He was often described as one of the preeminent actors of his generation, and...
Uma Thurman, an American actress, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970.
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an actress, writer, producer, and model from the United States. She has appeared in a wide range of films, including ro...
In the year 1996, Katherine Langford is a well-known Australian actress who was born in Australia.
Katherine Langford (born April 29, 1996) is a well-known Australian actress. After appearing in a number of independent films, she made her breakthrough as Hannah ...
Irrfan Khan, an Indian film producer and actor, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in 2020.
Irrfan Khan, also known simply as Irrfan, was an Indian actor who worked in both Indian and British and American films. Khan's career spanned over 30 years and...
Alfred Hitchcock, an English director, died of renal disease at the age of 80 in 1980.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was born on August 13, 1899, and died on April 29, 1980. He was an English filmmaker who was widely regarded as one of the most inf...
Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun at the Führerbunker in Berlin in 1945.
Adolf Hitler was a German politician of Austrian origin who ruled Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party. ...
In 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Catherine Middleton, married in Westminister Abbey in London.
The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom, on April 29, 2011. The groom was second in line to...
Andre Agassi, an American tennis player, was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1970.
Andre Kirk Agassi is a professional tennis player from the United States who is well-known for his eight Grand Slam wins and has always been the focus of attention...
Rohit Sharma, an Indian international cricketer, was born in 1987.
Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an Indian international cricketer who currently serves as the Indian national team's captain. He is widely regarded as one of the best...
Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter renowned as the "Father of Indian Cinema," was born in 1870.
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944) was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter known as the "Father of Indian Cinema." R...
At the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards in 2013, Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is named "The First Superstar of Indian Cinema."
Rajesh Khanna died on July 18, 2012, after being extremely unwell. Khanna was posthumously given the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour. At t...
The Imperial Bank of India was nationalized in 1955.
In 1955, the Imperial Bank of India was nationalised. The State Bank of India is the largest and oldest bank still in operation (S.B.I). In June 1806 it was founde...
As the Red Army occupies Berlin in 1945, Adolf Hitler and his new wife Eva Braun commit suicide in the Fuhrerbunker.
Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born German politician who led the Nazi Party, served as Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and was the Führer ('Leader&#...
Johnny Galecki, an American actor, was born in Bree, Belgium in 1975.
John Mark Galecki (born April 30, 1975) is an actor from the United States. He starred as Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory, for which he received a Primet...
Kirsten Dunst, an American actress, was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1982.
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a model and actress from the United States. She has won numerous awards, including the Best Actress Award at the Ca...
Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress, was born in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel, in 1985.
Gal Gadot-Varsano (born 30 April 1985) is an Israeli model and actress. She was crowned Miss Israel 2004 at the age of 18. She then served two years as a soldier i...
Rishi Kapoor, an Indian Bollywood actor and director, died in 2020 at the age of 67.
Rishi Kapoor was an Indian film actor, director, and producer who worked primarily in Hindi films. He received several honours, including four Filmfare Awards and ...
Ana de Armas, a Cuban actress, was born in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, in 1988.
Ana de Armas is a Spanish-Cuban actress best known for her roles in "Hands of Stone" and "Blade Runner 2049." Before moving to Hollywood, she w...
Kunal Nayyar, a British-Indian actor and writer, was born in London in 1981.
Kunal Nayyar is an Indian-British actor who has appeared in films, television shows, and plays. He is best recognised for his portrayal of 'Rajesh Koothrappali...
Anand Mahindra, the chairman of the Mahindra Group, was born in 1955.
Anand Gopal Mahindra (born May 1, 1955) is an Indian business magnate and the chairman of the Mahindra Group, a Mumbai-based conglomerate. Aerospace, agribusiness,...
Ajith Kumar, an Indian film actor who mostly works in Tamil cinema, was born in 1971.
Ajith Kumar (born 1 May 1971) is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He has appeared in over 60 Tamil films to date. Four Vijay Awards, three...
Batman initially appears in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.
Finger and Kane collaborated on the first Batman tale, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate." It appeared in Detective Comics #27, which was released on M...
Jamie Dornan, an Irish actor, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1982.
James Peter Maxwell Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is a Northern Irish actor, model, and musician. He used to be a character actor, and he frequently plays sol...
Anushka Sharma, an Indian actress and film producer who works in Hindi films, was born in 1988
Anushka Sharma, who was born on May 1, 1988, is an Indian actress and film producer who works primarily in Hindi films. She has won numerous awards, including a Fi...
Sonnalli Seygall, an Indian model and actress whose film debut was in 2011 with Pyaar Ka Punchnama, was born in 1989.
Sonnalli Seygall is an Indian actress who made her film debut in 2011 with Pyaar Ka Punchnama, directed by Luv Ranjan. Sonnalli was born on the 1st of May, 1985. S...
Radhika Madan, an Indian film actress and former television personality, was born in 1995.
Radhika Madan, born May 1, 1995, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. She made her acting debut in Colors TV's romantic drama Meri Aas...
Elvis Presley marries actress Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967.
On May 1, 1967, the genuine Elvis Presley, King of Rock 'n' Roll, married his long-term lover, Priscilla Beaulieu, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, far f...
In 1931, the Empire State Building opens in New York City.
If you've watched the film "King Kong," you might recall the structure that the gigantic ape climbs. On this date in history, May 1, 1931, the Empire...
Ritu Phogat, an Indian female wrestler and mixed martial artist, was born in 1994.
Ritu Phogat is a well-known Indian female wrestler from Balali, Haryana. Ritu Phogat won the gold medal in the 2016 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship and became ...
Satyajit Ray, an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, and graphic designer, was born in 1921.
Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921 in Calcutta, India, to an aristocratic Bengali family with a strong legacy in art and literature. He was the only son of Sukum...
In 2011, US special forces kill Osama bin Laden, the accused architect of the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
On May 2, 2011, soon after 1:00 a.m. PKT, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, was assassinated in Pakist...
Dwayne [The Rock] Johnson, an American pro wrestler, actor, and producer, was born in Hayward, California in 1972.
Dwayne Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California, USA. Rocky Johnson, his father, was a professional wrestler, and his mother, Ata Maivia, wa...
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, physicist, and visionary, dies at the age of 67 in 1519.
In 1516, Francis I of France commissioned Leonardo to construct a town and palace complex for the royal court at Romorantin, a seemingly insurmountable feat. The C...
Dwayne The Rock Johnson marries producer Dany Garcia in 1997.
On May 3, 1997, Johnson married Dany Garcia. She is a businessman, an IFBB pro bodybuilder, and a producer. Simone, their daughter, was born on August 14, 2001. Th...
Matt LeBlanc, of "Friends," married former model Melissa McKnight in 2003 at a secluded residence overlooking Anini Beach in Kilauea, Hawaii.
Matt Le Blanc has a wide range of automotive hobbies and formerly worked as a carpenter before becoming an actor. In May 2003, he married Melissa McKnight, a Briti...
Nargis, an Indian film actress who appeared in vintage Bollywood films, died in 1981.
Nargis Dutt was born on June 1, 1929 and died on May 3, 1981. She was an Indian politician and actress who appeared in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of the g...
The Kargil conflict erupted in 1999 as a result of Pakistani forces infiltrating the Indian side.
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil war, was a military confrontation conducted between India and Pakistan in the Kargil area of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhe...
Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian politician and writer, was born in Florence, Italy in 1469.
Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli's works are rarely rendered. Nicholas Machiavel, who lived from 3 May 1469 to 21 June 1527, was an Italian Renaissance diplo...
Golda Meir, an Israeli teacher, stateswoman, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel renowned as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1898.
Golda Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Ukraine, to Moshe and Bluma Mabovitch. In 1906, she and her family relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Mabovitch fa...
In the year 1933, James Brown, often known as 'The Godfather of Soul,' is an American R&B, gospel, soul, and funk singer who was born in Barnwell, South Carolina.
James Joseph Brown was a well-known American musician who made significant contributions to the development of various musical genres, including soul music, funk m...
Trisha Krishnan, better known as Trisha, is an Indian actress and model who works in the Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She was born in 1983.
Trisha Krishnan is a well-known and award-winning actress from both the Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She rose to prominence in the Tamil film business with ...
Maharaja Chhatrasal was born in 1649, a mediaeval Indian warrior of the Bundela dynasty who battled against the Mughal Empire to create his own kingdom in Bundelkhand.
Maharaja Chhatrasal (May 4, 1649 – December 20, 1731) was a mediaeval Indian warrior of the Bundela Rajput tribe who battled against Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb...
Tipu Sultan, the monarch of the Kingdom of Mysore, died in 1799.
Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore or Tippoo Sahib by the British, was an Indian prince who fought against the East India Company's takeover of sou...
Keira Knightley, a British actress, married musician James Righton in France in 2013.
Keira Knightley is a British model and actress. She is well-known for her roles in films such as "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbea...
Audrey Hepburn, a British actress, was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929.
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium, to J. A. Hepburn-Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. When she was eight years old, her father, a b...
Margaret Thatcher is the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
After the Callaghan government lost a vote of no confidence in early 1979, a general election was called. Thatcher became the first female British prime minister a...
Tyagaraja, a well-known Carnatic music composer, born in 1767.
After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire at the end of the 16th century, many Hindu families migrated to the southern districts of Tamilnadu, which were still calm...
Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, married Sajida Talfah, a teacher, in 1963.
Saddam married his first wife, cousin Sajida Talfah, in an arranged marriage in 1963. Sajida is Saddam's uncle and mentor Khairallah Talfah's daughter; the...
Angelina Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton in The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000.
Angelina Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas, after a two-month courtship. They met on the set of Pushing Tin, but did not pursue a...
Guru Amar Das, the third of Sikhism's ten Gurus, was born in 1479.
Guru Amar Das, born on 5 May 1479 and died on 1 September 1574, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at the age of 73. B...
The year was 1956. Gulshan Kumar Dua, the founder of the T-Series music label and an Indian businessman, was born.
Gulshan Kumar Dua (May 5, 1956 – August 12, 1997) was an Indian businessman and film and music producer who founded the Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T...
Karl Marx, a German philosopher, was born in Trier, Prussia, in 1818.
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revoluti...
Henry Cavill, an English actor, was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1983.
Henry Cavill was born on May 5, 1983, in Chester, England, to Colin Richard Cavill and Marianne Dalgliesh, who is part Irish, part English, and part Scottish. His ...
Adele, a British pop-rock singer-songwriter, was born in Tottenham, London, in 1988.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham, England, on May 5, 1988, to a Welsh father, Marc Evans, and an English mother, Penny Adkins. Evans left the family ...
Sean Connery marries Micheline Roquebrune in Casablanca in 1975.
From 1975 until his death, Sean Connery was married to French-Moroccan painter Micheline Roquebrune. Connery's marriage survived a well-publicized romance with...
Mughal Babur defeats Afghans and Bengals at the Battle of Gogra in 1529.
The War of Ghaghra, fought in 1529, was a pivotal battle in the Mughal Empire's conquest of India. It was fought after the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and ...
Ajmal Kasab was condemned to death for the Mumbai 26/11 attack in 2010.
On May 6, 2010, he was condemned to death on four charges and life in prison on five. On February 21, 2011, the Bombay High Court affirmed Kasab's death senten...
Motilal Nehru, an Indian lawyer and politician who served as President of the Indian National Congress, was born in 1861.
Motilal Nehru, an Indian National Congress member and independence leader, was born on May 6, 1861. Motilal Nehru was born in Agra to Delhi Kotwal Gangadhar Nehru ...
Elon Musk, an entrepreneur, founded SpaceX in 2002.
SpaceX is the creator of Starship as well as a commercial space enterprise best known for its International Space Station flights. Elon Musk launched SpaceX in 200...
Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and pioneer of psychology, was born in Freiberg, Austrian Empire, in 1856.
On May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Sigmund Freud was born to a wool trader and his second wife, Jakob and Amalie. This settlemen...
George Clooney, an American actor, was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961.
George Timothy Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to entertainer Nick Clooney and beauty queen Nina Bruce on May 6, 1961. He was the younger of the two child...
Naomi Scott, an English actress, was born in London, England in 1993.
Naomi Grace Scott was born on May 6, 1993, in Hounslow, London, England, to a Gujarati Indian mother, Usha Scott, and an English father, Christopher Scott. Naomi S...
Shahuji II, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, died in 1983.
Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, commonly known as Rajarshi Shahu, was widely regarded as a genuine democracy and social reformer. He was the first Maharaja of the princ...
Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian philosopher, poet, and writer, was born in Calcutta, India in 1861.
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 at the Jorasanko palace in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. He was the youngest son of thirteen childre...
Amyra Dastur, an Indian film actress, was born in 1993.
She was born on the 7th of May, 1993, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She made her film debut in Issaq. Amyra Dastur is an Indian actress who began her career as a ...
Bahubali 2 became the highest grossing film
Bahubali 2: The Conclusion was also the highest-grossing Indian film in the world, grossing $7.92 billion in six days. It was the first Indian film to enter the 1000 Crore Club, grossing more than ...
Dinesh Patel, an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher, was born in 1989.
Dinesh Kumar Patel (born May 8, 1989 in Lucknow, India) is an Indian right-handed pitcher who previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the first Indian...
Swami Chinmayananda, India's well-known spiritual thinker, was born in 1916.
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (Balakrishna Menon; May 8, 1916 – August 3, 1993) was a Hindu spiritual leader and teacher. In 1951, he established the Chinmay...
Ernest Rutherford reveals his discovery of two types of radiation in 1899. (Alpha and Beta Particles)
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He lived from 30 August 1871 to 19 October 1937. According to Ency...
Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta offers the first Coca-Cola in 1886. (contained cocaine)
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton delivered a jug of his newest patent medicine, a tonic known as Coca-Cola, to Jacob's Pharmacy on Peachtree Str...
Robert Johnson, an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in 1911.
Robert Leroy Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson, a sawmill employee. Robert Johnson was an American...
Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop, was born in Madrid, Spain in 1975.
Enrique Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain on May 8, 1975. Julio Iglesias, his father, is a well-known Spanish musician, and Isabel Preysler, his mother, is a well...
Stephen Amell, a Canadian actor, was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1981.
Stephen Adam Amell was born in Toronto, Ontario, on May 8, 1981, parents Sandra Anne and Thomas J. Amell. His first cousin is actor Robbie Amell. He went to St. An...
RIL was founded in 1973
Dhirubhai Ambani and Champaklal Damani co-founded Reliance Commercial Corporation in the 1960s. The partnership ended in 1965, and Dhirubhai continued the firm's polyester business. Reliance Te...
Australian international cricketer Patrick James Cummins was born
Patrick James Cummins, born 8 May 1993, is an Australian international cricketer and the current Test captain of Australia. In limited-overs cricket, he is the tea...
In 1981, the 203-foot-high Motherland Monument is unveiled at Kyiv, Ukraine, in a ceremony attended by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
The sculptural arrangement The Motherland Monument is one of the exhibits of the Museum of Ukraine's World War II History. It is located on one of Kyiv's h...
In 1866 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, an Indian social reformer and pioneer of the Indian Independence Movement, was born in Kotluk, Ratnagiri District, Bombay, India.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866, in the Ratnagiri District of the Bombay Presidency to an impoverished but ostensibly respectable Chitapavan Brahmin ...
Tenzing Norgay, the first Tibetan climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary in 1953, died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 71 in 1986.
Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand's Edmund Hillar...
Tom Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers in 1987.
Rogers had a different perspective. She told the Sun Sentinel in 1987 that she and Cruise were acquainted by mutual acquaintances. On May 9th, 1987, Cruise and Rog...
Vandana Shiva of India was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010 for her work on women's empowerment and environmental protection in developing countries.
Vandana Shiva learned her first lessons in environmental protection in the Himalayas, where she was born in 1952 to a forest conservator father and a farmer mother...
Thomas Edison used his Kinetograph to show the first motion picture exhibition to an audience of 400 people in Brooklyn, New York in 1893 at the Dept of Physics, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
In 1894, Thomas Edison of Menlo Park Offsite Link, New Jersey, formally introduced the KinetoscopeOffsite Link, a hand-cranked, single-viewer, lighted box to displ...
In the year 1857, The first fight of independence in India began. At Meerut, sepoys revolt against their commanding authorities.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, began at Meerut on May 10, 1857. Although not the first insurrection against the ...
Subedar Major Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian Army was born in 1980.
Yogendra Singh Yadav was born on May 10, 1980, in the village of Aurangabad Ahir, Bulandshahr District, Uttar Pradesh, to the Kshatriya Yadav family. His father, K...
Sharath Gayakwad, an Indian Paralympic swimmer from Bangalore, was born in 1991.
Sharath M. Gayakwad, born on May 10, 1991, is an Indian para-swimmer who has won about 40 national and 30 international medals in para swimming. Sharath M Gayakwad...
In 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor and murderer of US President Abraham Lincoln, was born.
Booth, who was born on May 10, 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, excelled as a youth in athletics and extracurricular activities but was a mediocre student. His parents ...
Santosh Yadav of India became the world's first woman climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, in 1993.
Mountaineer Santosh Yadav placed India on the map by climbing Mount Everest twice; her first ascent was in 1992, and she was the youngest woman in the world at the...
Pooja Bedi, a former actress, television talk show host, and newspaper writer, was born in 1970.
Pooja Bedi (born 11 May 1970) is an Indian actress, television talk show host and newspaper columnist. She is the daughter of Indian actors Kabir Bedi and Protima ...
Adah Sharma, an Indian actress, was born in 1992.
Adah Sharma is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi and Telugu films. After completing her education, Sharma made her acting debut in the 2008 Hindi lang...
Amninderpal Singh Virk, better known as Ammy Virk, is an Indian singer, actor, and producer who was born in 1992.
Amninderpal Singh Virk, better known as Ammy Virk, is a Punjabi and Hindi film singer, actor, and producer. He founded the production company Villagers Film Studio...
India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1998, including one with a thermonuclear weapon.
The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb tests conducted by India in May 1998 at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. It was India's second...
Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of India, dedicated the Somnath Temple in 1951.
The Somnath temple in Gujarat was restored today (May 11). Rajendra Prasad, the first president of the Indian republic, led the reconsecration ceremony of the ling...
Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist, was born in Figueres, Spain, in 1904.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal was a Spanish surrealist artist known for his technical skill, precise draughtsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
Rao Jodhpur created Jodhpur, Sun City, in 1459 in India.
Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief of the Rathore clan, founded Jodhpur in 1459. Jodha was successful in conquering the surrounding territory, establishing a kingdom known ...
Gaj Singh was crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur, India, in 1952.
Gaj Singh (born January 13, 1948) is an Indian politician who has served as a member of the Indian parliament and as India's High Commissioner. He has been the...
In 2015, a massive earthquake in Nepal killed 218 people and wounded over 3500 more.
On 12 May 2015, at 12:50 pm local time (07:05 UTC), a major earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 struck Nepal, 18 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Kodari. T...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first foreign woman ambassador, arrived in the United States in 1949.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician who served as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General ...
Bob Marley, a Jamaican reggae musician, dies of brain and lung cancer at the age of 36 in 1981.
Robert Nesta Marley OM was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician who lived from 6 February 1945 to 11 May 1981. His musical career was marked by fusing eleme...
Florence Nightingale, a British nurse, was born in Florence, Italy in 1820.
Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and the creator of modern nursing. During the Crimean War...
Katharine Hepburn, an American actress, was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1907.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Hepburn's career as a leading lady in Holl...
Rami Malek, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1981.
Rami Said Malek is an American actor who was born on May 12, 1981. He is best known for his roles as computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television ...
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, an Indian spiritual teacher, was born in 1956.
Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is a spiritual leader and yoga guru from India. He is also known as Sri Sri (honorific), Guru ji, or Gurudev. He began working as a...
Lara Dutta of India was crowned Miss Universe in 2000.
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...
Following the three nuclear tests performed on May 11, 1998, India conducts two more at Pokhran. Economic sanctions are imposed on India by the United States and Japan.
The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb tests conducted by India in May 1998 at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. It was India's second...
In the Demra tragedy in 1971, almost 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are slaughtered.
On 13 May 1971, the occupying Pakistan Army, aided by local collaborators, massacred unarmed Hindu residents of the Demra Union villages in present-day Faridpur Up...
Robert Pattinson, an English actor, was born in London, England in 1986.
Robert Pattinson is an English actor who was born on May 13, 1986. Pattinson is well-known for his roles in both big-budget and independent films, and he is one of...
Sunny Leone, a Canadian-born Indian-American model and actress, was born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1981.
Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), better known as Sunny Leone, is an actress and model in the American and Indian film industries. She was born in Canada to...
Stevie Wonder, an American singer-songwriter, was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950.
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950), better known as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter and musician who is regarded as a pioneer and influen...
1961 Dennis Rodman is an NBA forward who was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is a former professional basketball player, actor, and unofficial United States Peace Ambassador to North Korea. His biogra...
R.K. Narayan, an Indian author, died in 2001 at the age of 94.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (October 10, 1906 – May 13, 2001) was an Indian writer best known for works set in the fictional South Indian town ...
Manushi Chhillar, an Indian actress, model, and Miss World 2017 winner, was born in 1997.
Manushi Chhillar is an Indian actress, model, and Miss World 2017 winner. She won the Femina Miss India 2017 pageant while representing the state of Haryana. ...
In 1657, Sambhaji Bhosale, the second ruler of the Maratha state, was born.
Sambhaji Bhonsale, the second ruler of the Maratha Empire and Shivaji's eldest son, was born on May 14, 1657, at Purandar Fort near Pune. Sambhaji was the son ...
Zareen Khan, commonly known as Zarine Khan, is an Indian actress and model who was born in 1987.
Zareen Khan, also known as Zarine Khan, is an Indian actress and model who was born on May 14, 1987. She has primarily worked in the Hindi film industry, but she h...
Israel declares independence from British rule in 1948.
The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the Palestine War of 1947–1949. It formally began at midnight on 14 May 1948, fo...
Shashi tharoor was accused of murdering wife in 2018.
Mr Tharoor, a member of India's main opposition Congress party, married Ms Pushkar, a former businesswoman based in Dubai, in 2010. On January 17, 2014, she wa...
Cate Blanchett, an Australian actress, was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1969.
Catherine Elise Blanchett AC (born 14 May 1969) is a producer and actress from Australia. She is regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, known for...
Mark Zuckerberg, an American online entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook, was born in White Plains, New York, in 1984.
Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, as one of four children and the only son of Karen (née Kempner) and Edward Zuckerberg. ...
Martin Garrix, a Dutch DJ, was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, in 1996.
Martin Garrix was born on May 14, 1996, as Martijn Gerard Garritsen in Amstelveen, a municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland, to Gerard and Karin Garri...
In 1769, Edward Jenner, an English doctor, is credited for the novel vaccine for smallpox, a disease that caused millions of fatalities over the centuries.
On May 14, 1796, he vaccinated an 8-year-old kid, James Phipps, with material from Nelms' lesions. As a result, the youngster got a minor temperature and axill...
Sukhdev Thapar, an Indian freedom warrior, was born in 1907.
Sukhdev Thapar (15 May 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary who worked with his best friends and partners Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru to f...
In 1993, KM Cariappa, the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, died.
Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa OBE, who lived from 28 January 1899 to 15 May 1993, was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. During the...
In 1967, Madhuri Dixit, an Indian actress, producer, and television personality, was born.
Madhuri Dixit Nene born 15 May 1967 is a television personality, producer, and actress from India. She is one of the most well-known leading ladies in H...
Emily Dickinson, an American poet, died of nephritis at the age of 55 in 1886.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was a poet from the United States. She was little known during her lifetime, but she is now rega...
Andy Murray, a British tennis player, was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1987.
Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE OLY (born May 15, 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranked him No. 1 in th...
Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California, in 1940.
On May 15, 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's at 1398 North E Street and West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California. The brothe...
Megan Fox, an American actress and model, was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1986.
Megan Fox is a model and actress from the United States. She began taking dance and theatre courses at the age of five. She continued to train even when her family...
Sikkim became India's 22nd state in 1975.
The current monarchy of Sikkim began in 1642 with the crowning of Phuntsog Namgyal as Chogyal or king. The king was also a Buddhist priest who had been consecrated...
Sonal Chauhan, an Indian actress who works in Telugu and Hindi films, was born in 1987.
Sonal Chauhan is a lovely Indian actress. She was born in Uttar Pradesh, India on May 16, 1987. She attended Gargi College in New Delhi after finishing her educati...
Vicky Kaushal, an Indian actor, was born in 1988.
Vicky Kaushal is an Indian film actor best known for his performance in the award-winning film Masaan. Kaushal was born on May 16, 1988 in a Mumbai neighbourhood c...
Junko Tabei of Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1975.
Junko Istibashi was born in a tiny farming hamlet in Fukushima prefecture in 1939. Junko was a small youngster who was apparently thought frail and vulnerable as o...
Pierce Brosnan, an Irish actor, was born in Drogheda, Ireland, in 1953.
Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Ireland on May 16, 1953, to Thomas, a carpenter, and Mary May Smith. Pierce's father abandoned the family when he was a newb...
