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…
Tamil was designated a classical language of India in 2004, which means it meets three criteria: it has ancient origins, an independent tradition, and a significan...
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River in Navagam, near the town of Kevadiya in Gujarat, India. The dam was built to supply wa...
Hyderabad has been a part of India for seventy years. The state of Hyderabad, ruled by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, surrendered ...
Vanessa Lynn Williams is a singer, actress, and fashion designer from the United States. When she was crowned Miss America 1984 in 1983, she made history as t...
NASA's space shuttle Enterprise rolled out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities in 1976, greeted by NASA officials and cast members from the television ser...
The United States Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 39 delegates to the Constitutional Conventi...
Taisto Armas Mäki was a Finnish long-distance runner who was known as one of the "Flying Finns." Mäki, like his coach and close friend Pa...
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on September 17, 1950, in Vadnagar, Mehsana district, Bombay State, to a Gujarati Hindu family of grocers (present-day Gujarat).N...
Ravichandran Ashwin is a cricketer from India. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break for Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan Royals in the ...
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist known for his use of bright colours and bold narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was a celebrated and inter...
Lance Edward Armstrong (born September 18, 1971) is a former professional road cyclist from the United States. Known as a sports icon for winning the Tour de Franc...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organisation in the United States that coordinates the maintenance and procedures of...
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born September 18, 1973) is a South African-British entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company that created the Linu...
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who lived from November 27, 1942 to September 18, 1970. Despite the fact ...
On September 18, 1997, the New Zealand-Zimbabwe Test became the first to feature three pairs of brothers in one team. Zimbabwe fielded Andy and Grant Flower, Gavin...
Four Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists from Pakistan carried out the 2016 Uri attack on an Indian Army brigade headquarters near Uri in the Indian Union Territory of Jam...
Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna, based on LaManna's story. It stars Jac...
The colonial period began on September 18, 1502 when Christopher Columbus arrived on the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage.Columbus continued his ex...
The New York Times Company is an American media corporation that owns and operates The New York Times newspaper. Its headquarters are located in Manhattan, New Yor...
Tiffany & Co. is an American luxury jewellery and specialty retailer based in New York City. Jewelry, sterling silver, china, crystal, stationery, fragra...
The reconstruction of London's Royal Opera House began in December 1808, and the second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (designed by Robert Smirke) opened on Sept...
The Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the 1938 comic book characters and concepts created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show ...
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, released by A&M Records on September 19, 1989. D...
Ogden Bolton Jr. of Canton, Ohio, filed a patent application for a "electrical bicycle" on September 19, 1895. In 1911, an article in Popular Mechanics i...
On September 19, 1888, the "Concours de Beaute" was held in Spa, Belgium. It was the first true modern beauty pageant with a judging panel and prize mone...
Even in this sweltering environment, with the sun beating down mercilessly, Dean Jones persevered for 503 minutes, scoring 210 off 330 balls. A courageous performa...
On September 19, 2010, the well was declared sealed after several failed attempts to contain the flow. Early 2012 reports indicated that the well site was still le...
Lord Glasgow, the governor, signed a new Electoral Act into law on September 19, 1893. As a result of this historic legislation, New Zealand became the world's...
In September 1991, two German hikers were crossing the Tisenjoch Pass at an elevation of 10,530 feet (3,210 meters) above the tztal Valley in western Austria when ...
Glastonbury Festival is a five-day contemporary performing arts festival held in Pilton, Somerset, England. Aside from contemporary music, the festival also featur...
Karnam Malleswari is a retired Indian weightlifter who was born on June 1, 1975. She was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in 2000. She received the A...
Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh made history on September 19, 2007, when he became the first batsman in T20I history to hit six consecutive sixes in an over....
Sunita Lyn Williams is an American astronaut and the United States Navy officer who previously held the records for the most female spacewalks and the longest fema...
William West Anderson, better known by his stage name Adam West, was an American actor. He played Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name, as well as the 1...
Aakash Chopra is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India between late 2003 and late 2004.
...Lucky Ali, born Maqsood Mahmood Ali, is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor. With a string of hit singles and albums, he established himself as a major figure ...
The original theatre on the site, the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, debuted on December 7, 1732, with the inaugural performance of William Congreve's The Way o...
Ferenc Szisz (September 20, 1873 – February 21, 1944) was a Hungarian race car driver who won the first Grand Prix motor racing event in 1906 aboard a Renaul...
The Paris-Marseille-Paris race was the first competitive 'city to city' motor race, starting in Paris, in which the first car across the finish line was de...
The Wright Flyer II was Wilbur and Orville Wright's second powered aircraft. During 1904, they made a total of 105 flights, eventually achieving five-minute flights and full circles, which Wilb...
Sophia Loren (born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress. The American Film Institute named her one of the greatest...
Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and former Supreme Court judge who served as the Press Council of India's chairman. Markandey Katju was born in Lucknow on ...
Mahesh Bhatt (born September 20, 1948) is a film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Saaransh (1984), screened at the 14t...
In September 1982, Pakistan's Jalal-ud-Din took the first ODI hat-trick against Australia in Hyderabad, Sindh. Kuldeep Yadav of India achieved this feat most r...
Rashid Khan Arman (born September 20, 1998) is an Afghan cricketer and former national team captain. He currently plays for the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premie...
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novelist from the United States. His ...
Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from 21 September 1909 to 27 April 1972. He was Ghana's first Prime...
Sir Allen Lane CH (21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books in 1935 with his brothers Richard and John Lane, bringi...
Herbert George Wells, born on September 21, 1866, was an English writer. He was a prolific writer of many genres, having written over fifty novels and dozens of sh...
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem rotor helicopter designed and manufactured by American rotorcraft company Vertol. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel. It was published in 1937 to widespread critical acclaim, earning it a...
The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to declare the Day a period...
Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born September 21, 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who has represented the West Indies since 1999. Gayle, a destructive batter, is widel...
AT&T announced plans to split its operations into three companies: communications services, communications equipment, and computers. AT&T's core teleph...
Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, also known as Mansur Ali Khan or M. A. K. Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the Indian cricket team...
The Vela incident occurred on September 22, 1979, close to the South African territory of the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly halfway between Af...
On September 22, 1955, the BMW 507 makes its debut at the Frankfurt auto show. The hand-built, aluminum-bodied, V-8-powered roadster was developed to move BMW beyo...
English scientist Michael Faraday FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) made significant contributions to the study of electrochemistry and electromagneti...
Friends is an American television sitcom that ran for ten seasons on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, and was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman...
Lifeguards in Los Angeles County, California and Hawaii patrol the beaches in the American action drama television series Baywatch, which stars David Hasselhoff. M...
Five seasons and 115 episodes of the American crime drama Charlie's Angels were broadcast on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981. Ivan Goff and Ben R...
The National Geographic, formerly known as The National Geographic Magazine, is the National Geographic Society's official publication. Ever since the first is...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Ayushman Bharat, the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme, which will benefit 50 crore Indians. He desc...
Karl Maybach then decided to go into car production on his own in order to make use of the large production capacities that had become idle due to the cancellation...
Mozilla Firefox, also known as Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser created by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It dis...
Roland Georges Garros was a French fighter pilot and aviation pioneer. Garros began his aviation career in 1909 and accomplished many early feats before joining th...
Nintendo was founded in 1889 to manufacture handmade hanafuda playing cards. The company licensed third-party card graphics, such as Disney characters, in the mid-...
The Battle of Assaye was a major battle fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company during the Second Anglo-Maratha War. It happened on Se...
Robert Nesta Marley OM was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. It was Marley's was on the final tour and Europe's largest music tour that year. Th...
The Second Kashmir War, also known as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, was the result of clashes between Pakistan and India between April 1965 and September 1965. F...
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and saxophonist who lived from September 23, 1930, to June 10, 2004. He was frequently referr...
German industrialist, engineer, and inventor Robert Bosch (23 September 1861 – 12 March 1942) founded Robert Bosch GmbH.
The eleventh of twelve childr...
Born on September 23, 1949, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Twenty studio albums have been released by him, the...
Prem Chopra, an Indian actor who performs in Punjabi and Hindi films, was born on September 23, 1935. Over a period of more than 60 years, he has appeared in 380 m...
Indian organic chemist Asima Chatterjee, who worked in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine, was born on September 23, 1917, and passed away on Novemb...
Ramdhari Singh (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974), also known by his pen name Dinkar, was an Indian poet, essayist, freedom fighter, patriot, and academic w...
Walter Lippmann was an American author, journalist, and political commentator who was born on September 23, 1889 and died on December 14, 1974. His 60-year career ...
Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor. He ruled from 27 BC until his death on August 19, AD 14. His birthday was September 23, 63 BC...
In the year following his resignation from the board of the media company, Ted Turner claimed to have sold all of his shares of Time Warner Inc. Having sold CNN an...
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, as well as St...
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power e...
The Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as Mangalyaan, is a space probe that has been orbiting Mars since September 24, 2014. The Indian Space Research Organisation l...
The Poona Pact was a 1932 agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on behalf of Dalits, lower caste Hindu leaders, and upper caste Hindu leaders on ...
James Maury Henson, who lived from September 24, 1936 to May 16, 1990, was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, and filmmaker best known f...
William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, which was once one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom. He lived from 18 April 1794 to 24 September 1863....
Stephanie McMahon, born September 24, 1976, is a businesswoman and former professional wrestler from the United States. She is the Chairwoman and Co-CEO of WWE and...
Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj (born September 24, 1950) is a former Indian cricketer, cricket analyst, and actor. He is the son of Lala Amarnath (India's first ca...
Sivanthi Adityan (September 24, 1936 – April 19, 2013) was an Indian media magnate who owned the Tamil newspapers Daily Thanthi and Maalaimalar. In 1959, Siv...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer who lived from September 24, 1896 to December 21, 1940. He is best known fo...
Bhikaiji Rustom Cama, also known as Madam Cama, was a prominent figure in the Indian independence movement who was born on September 24, 1861. Bhikaiji Cama was bo...
The United States launched Mars Observer on September 25, 1992, after a 17-year hiatus since its last mission to the red planet. The spacecraft was built on the ba...
Employees worked between 10 and 16 hours per day. On September 25, 1926, Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, made a ground-breaking change by becoming one o...
The first printing press in America was established on September 25, 1639, in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. For 150 years, the press was in continuous use, ...
Alexander Michael Rossi, born September 25, 1991, is a professional racing driver and podcast host from the United States. He currently drives the No. 27 Honda for...
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (September 25, 1969 – June 1, 2002) was a South African international cricketer who captained the South African nat...
Smith, Willard Carroll "Will" II He was born on September 25, 1968...
Feroz Khan (September 25, 1939 – April 27, 2009) was an Indian actor, film editor, producer, and director best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Throughout...
Satish Dhawan (25 September 1920 – 3 January 2002) was a mathematician and aerospace engineer from India who is widely regarded as the father of experimental...
Bishan Singh Bedi, born September 25, 1946, is a former Indian cricketer who primarily bowled slow left-arm orthodox. From 1966 to 1979, he was a member of India&#...
William Henry Getty France (September 26, 1909 – June 7, 1992) was an American businessman and racing driver known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill. He is best...
Jonathan Marc Bairstow (born September 26, 1989) is an English cricketer who represents his country in all formats. He represents Yorkshire in domestic cricket and...
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is a professional tennis player from the United States. She has held the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) sing...
The trademark "Mercedes" was legally registered in 1903. Mercedes Ramona's father hung a large portrait of her at the 1902 Paris Automobile Exhibitio...
Ben Stokes was arrested in the early hours of September 25th, 2017 for a street brawl outside a nightclub in Bristol, England, and was later released under investi...
On September 26, 1999, India faced Hansie Cronje's South African team in the first game of the LG Cup series. After winning the toss, Cronje's team batted ...
Abbey Road is the English rock band the Beatles' eleventh studio album. Although Let It Be was the last album completed before the band's dissolution in Ap...
Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), also known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director, and producer best known for...
Manmohan Singh, born September 26, 1932, is an Indian politician, economist, and statesman who served as India's 13th Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014. He is a...
Ian Michael Chappell (born September 26, 1943) is a former South Australian and Australian cricketer. Between 1971 and 1975, he captained Australia before becoming...
Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov In 1901, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; in 1904, he was awarded the Nobel Prize; and in 1...
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor who lived from September 26, 1888 to January 4, 1965. He is a key ...