1859 - Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species"
1874 - Joseph F Glidden patented barbed wire
1949 - Britain nationalised its steel & iron industry
1974 - bone fossils of Lucy (Australopithecus) were discovered.
1989 - Tendulkar scored a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
2012 - Gangnam Style became the most viewed youtube video registering 808 million views
Birthdays
1655 - Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President USA (Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850)
1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
1955 - Ian Botham, English cricketer (great all-rounder)
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
1867 - US Congress commission started looking into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
1874 - The United States Greenback Party was established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
2009 - Due to powerful storm, rain fall that normally falls in 3 years was received in 4 hours in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It lead to terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which killed over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj pilgrimage period.
Birthdays
1835 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish/American industrialist/philanthropist
1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
1881 - Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), Bergamo, Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1939 - Martin Feldstein, economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal)
1952 - Imran Khan Niazi, cricketer (Pakistan's great all-rounder) and presently politician
1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce is published
1946 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1954 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1964 - Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturg
1971 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1984 - Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
2011 - Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (d. 1955)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1926 - Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian author and activist
1927 - The Holland Tunnel was opened to traffic. The tunnel runs under the Hudson River between New York City and Jersey City and was the first underwater tunnel built in the U.S. It is comprised of two tubes, each large enough for two lanes of traffic.
1945 - General Charles De Gaulle was appointed president of the French provisional government.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
1967 - Carl Stokes became the first African American mayor in the U.S., elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
1973 - A state of emergency was declared in Britain after power workers and coal miners began work slowdowns.
1995 - Israel began pulling its troops out of the West Bank city of Jenin, ending 28 years of occupation.
2015 - Gun men attacked in number of Paris locations and killed people. They are suspected to ISIS terrorists. Emergency imposed in France. The President declared we are at war.
Birthday
American jurist Louis Brandeis (1856-1941). Connected to Scientific Management.
Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1838 - Mexico declares war on France
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1966 - Barbados gained independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1967 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK
1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party was founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1986 - Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
Birthdays
1667 - Jonathan Swift,Author (Gulliver's Travels)
1835 - Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1874 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55)
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome was performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1949 - Nationalist regime of China left for Taiwan/Formosa
1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250) at that time.
1660 - The Royal Society formed in London
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress formally established US Navy
1814 - The Times of London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. The era of availability of newspapers to a mass audience began.
1821 - Panama declared independence from Spain
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1943 - France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprisoned Lebanese government
1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1974 - Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2008 - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2011 - Google announced that it was closing its wiki-based knowledge platform "Knol."
2015 - Djokovic beat Federer in ATP Mens Finals. He is going to the first player in Tennis to earn $20 million through tournament prize money( will happen in 2015). http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/14199236/novak-djokovic-set-become-first-player-tennis-history-earn-20-million-single-season
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Knol is Discontinued
Google made an announcement that is discontinuing Knol. An arrangement is made to transfer knol articles to Wordpress platform under Annotum authoring tool.
"Knol—We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we’ve been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible"
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1952 - India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
1996 - IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
1554 - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed
1674 - English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
Birthdays
1922 – Jim Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986)
1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1970 - Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer (1993-2007), born in Dubbo, New South Wales
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9 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
2002 - Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
Birthdays
1870 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938)
1777 - The Articles of Confederation were adopted by Continental Congress.
1881 - The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Five years later the organization was renamed the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
1889 - Brazil became a republic.
1965 - Craig Breedlove on Monday [November 15, Bonneville Salt Flat (Utah)] set a new world land speed record 600.60 miles (960 kms.) an hour in his jet-powered car, “Spirit of American Sonic” and became the first man ever to smash the 600-mile-an-hour barrier on land.
Birthday - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus restored the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reached America: Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts
1877 - Tom Edison announced his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) - first machine to play and record sound
1971 - Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (freedom fighters of present Bangla Desh) defeated the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1986 - Central African Republic adopted constitution
1995 - Dow Jones closed above 5,000 for 1st time
762 AD - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
1866 - Pierre Lalemont patented rotary crank bicycle
1917 - First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI
1919 - 1st municipally owned airport in US opened (Tucson Az)
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany - Start of the trials.
1949 - Jewish population of Israel reached 1,000,000
1959 - UN adopted Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1969 - Brazilian soccer icon Pele scored his 1,000th goal
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
1986 - World Health Organization announced first global effort to combat AIDS
326 - Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1650 - Portuguese were driven out of Oman ports - Oman National Day
1909 - US invades Nicaragua, Subsequently overthrows President Zelaya
1916 - 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) called off - over 1 million killed or wounded
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
1956 - Morocco gains independence
1970 - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1993 - North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
Celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day (formerly called Armistice Day) with parades and military memorial ceremonies.
November 11, 1918 - At 5 a.m., in Marshal Foch's railway car, the Armistice between the Allied and Central Powers was signed, silencing the guns of World War I effective at 11 a.m. – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. In many places in Europe, a moment of silence in memory of the millions of fallen soldiers is still observed.
Birthday
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). Best known for The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) was undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1917 - In Russia, As a result of October Revolution (Oct 26) Lenin seized power.
