Sunday, November 23, 2014

30 January - History and Importance of the Day


World Leprosy Day (is celebrated on 4th Sunday of January)
http://www.leprosy.org/world-leprosy-day




1487 - Bell chimes invented
1649 King Charles I was beheaded
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-charles-i-executed-for-treason
1790 - Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1862 - USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched
1883 - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1927 - Left wins national election in Thuringen
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
1961 - Lance Gibbs (West Indies) takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1979 - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) adopts a new constitution
1989 - Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts




       

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2013 - News Headlines - Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jan/30/all

History of the Day - India

30 January Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

History of Day - Films - English - Hindi - Telugu

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