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 Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's first cabinet, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renunciating Hinduism.
Related On This Day
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism and the first Sikh Guru, was born in 1469 in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, physicist, and visionary, was born in 1452 in Vinci, Florence, Italy.
At 11.40 p.m. in 1912, the RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.
The year was 1982. Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
John Wilkes Booth shoots US President Abraham Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865.
Akon, a Senegalese American singer-songwriter and producer, was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1973.
Mandira Bedi, an Indian actress, fashion designer, and television presenter, was born in 1972.
Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel winner, died in 1955 at the age of 76 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.