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K. R. Narayanan, India's 10th President, died in 2005 at the age of 85.
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was appointed vice president of India in 1992 and elected president in 1997. Narayanan was born on February 4, 1921, to a destitute Dalit ...
John Milton, the English poet and puritan best known for Paradise Lost, dies at the age of 65 in 1674.
John Milton is most known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, which is often recognized as the finest epic poem ever written in English. It established his status as ...
Gordon Ramsay, a British chef and reality television star, was born in Johnstone, Scotland in 1966.
Gordon James Ramsay was born on November 8, 1966, in Johnstone, Scotland, and reared in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, when his family relocated there when he was f...
Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1847.
Abraham Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland, to Abraham Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker. He was one of seven children, and h...
Vlad III the Impaler, a Wallachian prince, was born in SighiÅŸoara, Transylvania, Romania in 1431.
Vlad III - afterwards known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad TepeÅŸ - was born in 1431 at the Sighisoara Citadel, the son of Vlad II Dracul, who was the illegitimate so...
During an unannounced live broadcast address in 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the demonetization of all 500 and 1,000 banknotes, scrapping 86 percent of the notes in circulation in a fight against corruption.
On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on national television and said that all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 high-value notes will become worthless by midni...
In 2019, the Kartarpur corridor will open, allowing Sikh pilgrims from India to visit the holy shrine of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without requiring a visa.
Ahead of Guru Nanak's 550th Prakash Purab celebrations, the Kartarpur corridor, which connects Sri Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nanak in India's Punjab with Gurd...
In 2019, India's Supreme Court finds in favor of Hindus over Muslims in a dispute over who has the claim to the Ayodhya holy site.
The 2.77 acres, previously claimed by both Hindus and Muslims, were the site of a 16th century mosque was demolished by right-wing mobs to unearth and find a...
In the year 1907 On his birthday, King Edward VII receives the Cullinan Diamond, the biggest diamond ever unearthed.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever discovered, weighing 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g) (21.9 ounces) and discovered on January 26, 1905...
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte stages a coup and ascends to the position of dictator of France under the title of First Consul.
Napoleon was a member of a party that successfully ousted the French Directory in November 1799, in an incident known as the coup of 18 Brumaire. The Directory was...
Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-American actress and inventor, was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1914.
On November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born. She was discovered as a youngster by an Austrian cinema director and rose to worldwide ...
10th of November 2019 India defeated Bangladesh in the T20 series thanks to Deepak Chahar's 6 wickets for 7 runs.
On 10th of November 2019 India defeated Bangladesh in the T20 series thanks to Deepak Chahar's 6 wickets for 7 runs. In November 2019, during the third a...
Marc Márquez won the MotoGP world championship on November 10th, 2013.
Spanish professional motorcycle road racer Marc Márquez Alentà has competed for Honda's factory team since his 2013 MotoGP debut. Marc Márquez won the MotoGP world champion...
Leonardo DiCaprio, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1974.
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, and is best known for his edgy, unconventional roles. He began his career in t...
Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Minister of Education, was born in Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, in 1888.
Maulana Azad was born on November 11, 1888, in Makkah, Hejaz vilayet, Ottoman Empire, now Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During the Indian independence movement, he was an I...
Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, the ninth Nanak and the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikhs, was executed at the age of 54 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675.
Guru Teg Bahadur was the ninth Sikh Guru, and the Sikhs revered him as the "Protector of Humanity." Guru Tegh Bahadur was a wonderful teacher as wel...
India's opening batsman Rohit Sharma recorded the highest individual ODI score on November 13, 2014.
India's opening batsman Rohit Sharma recorded the highest individual ODI score on November 13, 2014. At the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Rohit, a.k.a. "Hitman," smashed 264 runs in 173 ba...
Stan Lee [Stanley Martin Lieber], an American comic-book artist, writer, and the creative boss of the Marvel multimedia conglomerate, died in 2018 at the age of 95.
Stan Lee, the man credited with ushering in a new renaissance in comic books with his many flawed, relatable superheroes such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, died on N...
Anne Hathaway, an American actress, was born in New York City in 1982.
Anne Hathaway, full name Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born November 12, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, is an American actress known for her versat...
Ryan Gosling, a Canadian actor, was born in London, Ontario in 1980.
Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, into a working-class Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints family in the city ...
During the Gemini program in 1966, Buzz Aldrin snaps the first'space selfie,' a photograph of himself practicing extravehicular activity in space.
On November 12, 1966, decades before the term "selfie" became widespread, NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin took the first space selfie while on a spacewalk during the Gemini 12 mission. In a Tw...
Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit a planet on November 13, 1971.
A robotic spacecraft called Mariner 9 that was a component of NASA's Mariner programme made a significant contribution to the exploration of Mars. Mariner 9 wa...
Michael Schumacher won his first Formula One drivers' world championship on November 13th, 1994
Michael Schumacher, a German race car driver who holds records for winning the most Formula One (F1) Grand Prix races, was born on January 3, 1969 in Hürth-Hermülhein, West Germany. Micha...
Juhi Chawla is an Indian actress, producer, and businesswoman who was born on November 13, 1967
Juhi Chawla is an Indian actress, producer, and businesswoman who was born on November 13, 1967. From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, she established herself as one of the top actresses in Hindi...
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh married at Lake Como, Italy, in the first of two weddings in 2018.
Two of the famous Bollywood actors, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, the Bajiro and Mastani of Indian film industry tied thier sacred knot on November 14 at Lak...
Dennis Rodman (37) of the Chicago Bulls married Carmen Electra (26) in the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1998.
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra walked into the iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel, Chapel of the Flowers, on November 14, 1998, and eloped after dating for several ...
Michael Jackson (38) marries Debbie Rowe (38) in Sydney, Australia in 1996.
On November 14, 1996, Jackson, 38, married Debbie Rowe, 37, a longtime friend and nurse to his plastic surgeon. Michael Jackson married the woman carrying his chil...
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian teacher and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at the age of 81 in 1977.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta, also known as Swami Prabhupda, was an Indian religious leader and author who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also...
King Charles, former Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall, was born in London in 1948.
King Charles, former prince of Wales and earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick and Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince...
Aditya Birla, an industrialist, was born in India in 1944.
Aditya Vikram Birla was a businessman from India. He oversaw the diversification of his group into textiles, petrochemicals, and telecommunications after being bor...
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and a key figure in the Indian independence struggle, was born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India, in 1889.
Indira Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leader of India's nationalist movement and the country's first prime minister following independence. In 1889, Nehru was born in Allahaba...
Astronomers announced the finding of a Super-Earth planet circling the red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years distant, in 2018.
On November 14, 2018, astronomers discovered a frozen and dimly lit planet, dubbed 'Super-Earth,' orbiting the closest solitary star to the Sun, a breakthr...
Albert Einstein introduces his quantum theory of light in 1908.
Albert Einstein, the scientist who unveiled his radical theory of relativity, presented his quantum theory about light on November 14, 1908. Albert Einstein's ...
Sony releases the Playstation Four in 2013, selling one million copies on the first day.
Sony reportedly sold over one million units of its latest gaming console PlayStation 4 on its first day of sale, November 15th, 2013, in the United States and Cana...
Microsoft delivers the first Xbox gaming console in the United States in 2001.
The Xbox is a home video game console that was the first in Microsoft's Xbox series of video game consoles. It was released on November 15, 2001, as Microsoft&...
In the year 2000, India gains a new state, Jharkhand.
On November 15, 2000, Jharkhand was formed from 18 districts of Bihar. Six more districts were later created by reorganising the existing districts.
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Sania Mirza, an Indian tennis player, was born in Mumbai, India in 1986.
Sania Mirza is one of the world's most well-known tennis players. She is of Indian origin and has made a name for herself in the world of tennis. Sania has won...
Birsa Munda, an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, was born in Ulihatu, Bengal Presidency, British India, in 1875.
Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero from the Chhotanagpur Plateau area. Birsa Munda established a tribal religious Mi...
Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor, playwright, and poet, dies of COVID complications at the age of 85 in 2020.
Soumitra Chatterjee, a legendary Indian actor best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, died on November 15 from Covid complicati...
Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor (The Chess Players, Gandhi), died in 2015 at the age of 86.
On November 15, 86-year-old Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey, who appeared in films such as A Passage to India and Gandhi, died. Jaffrey appeared in over 150 films, i...
Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese video game designer (Nintendo, developer of Mario and The Legend of Zelda), was born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan, in 1952.
Shigeru Miyamoto (JP) is a Nintendo video game director, producer, artist, designer, and general manager who was born on November 16, 1952. He is regarded as one o...
Lionel Messi, at 16, makes his FC Barcelona debut in 2003, coming in as a substitute in a friendly against Porto.
Messi made his first team debut on November 16, 2003, at the age of 16 years, four months, and 23 days, when he came on in the 75th minute of a friendly against Jo...
Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins the first free elections in 11 years in 1988.
The PPP of Pakistan's Bhutto won the first free elections for the first time in 11 years. Despite allegations of vote rigging against the PPP and the use of th...
In 1558, at the age of 25, Elizabeth I ascends to the English throne following the death of her half-sister, Queen "Bloody" Mary.
After her half-sister died in November 1558, Elizabeth ascended to the throne. She was well-educated (fluent in five languages) and had inherited her parents' ...
Imrat Khan, an Indian sitar and surbahar performer and composer, was born in Calcutta, British India, in 1935.
Ustad Imrat Khan is a world-renowned surbahar performer, a deep-toned, sitar-like stringed instrument invented by his great-grandfather, Ustad Sahabdad Khan, and U...
Chanda Kochhar, an Indian businesswoman (CEO of ICICI Bank), was born in Jodhpur, India, in 1961.
ICICI Bank's managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) is Chanda Kochhar. She was born in Rajasthan on November 17th, 1961. She is well-known fo...
Omprakash Valmiki, an Indian Dalit writer and poet (Joothan), died of stomach cancer in 2013 at the age of 63.
Omprakash Valmiki was a Dalit writer and poet from India. Joothan is well-known for his autobiography, which is regarded as a watershed moment in Dalit literature....
Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian novelist, politician, and independence fighter, was born in 1928.
Lala Lajpat Rai, also known as "Punjab Kesari," was an Indian independence activist, author, politician, and freedom fighter who played a pivotal role in...
