13 April History and Importance of The Day

989 - Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas

1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mohi

1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.

1668 - John Dryden becomes 1st English poet laureate

1796 - 1st elephant arrives in US from India
1796 - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians

1960 - France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara

Birthday
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). 3rd President, USA.  He was an author, inventor, lawyer, politician, and architect.  He authored the American Declaration of Independence and later served as the 3rd U.S. President from 1801 to 1809.

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13 April Hindi Films History
(Hindi Film Industry's first film showed as preview on the 13 April 1913. An important day in Hindi Films History.)

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12 April History and Importance of The Day

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12 April History and Importance of The Day

International Day Human Space Flight


International Mother Earth Day



Myanmar  New Year Holiday

2004 - Quadruple Century by Brian Lara - Cricket
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149410.html

1976
A famous victory for India, who chased a then-record 406 to beat West Indies in the third Test in Trinidad.

1930
Last test match day for  Wilfred Rhodes - 52 years, 165 days  against West Indies in Jamaica. He made his debut in Tests in WG Grace's last match, in 1899.




Birthdays

1917 - Vinoo Mankad


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563 BC -  Among Buddhists, celebrated as the birthday of Buddha (563-483 B.C.).

217 Roman Emperor Caracalla was assassinated

1913 Opening of China's First Parliament

1913 - The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified requiring direct popular election of U.S. senators. Previously, they had been chosen by state legislatures.

2013 Death of Margaret Thatcher - First Woman Prime Minister of UK

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7 April History and Importance of The Day

World Health Day

2023 - 75 Years of WHO
2013 theme - Blood Pressure

https://nraonid.blogspot.com/2012/04/world-health-day-7-april.html

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11 April History and Importance of The Day

1919 - Establishment of International Labour Union (ILO) - I visited the office during my visit to Switzerland in October 2012.

1968 - A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law prohibited discrimination in housing, protected civil rights workers and expanded the rights of Native Americans.

1970 - Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy at 2:13 p.m. Fifty-six hours into the flight an oxygen tank exploded in the service module. Astronaut John L. Swigert, James A. Lovell and Fred W. Haise then transferred into the lunar module, using it as a "lifeboat" and began a perilous return trip to Earth, splashing down safely on April 17th.


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18 March History and Importance of The Day

GLOBAL RECYCLING DAY

The power of the Seventh Resource must be recognized by leaders around the world, through seven concrete changes:

Focus on international legislation and agreements.
Support, and campaign for,  free sustainable trade of recyclable materials to ecologically sound companies across the globe.
Educate, from grass roots up, the public on the critical necessity of recycling.
Agree to a common language of recycling.
To make recycling a community issue, supporting schemes and initiatives which help households and businesses provide Seventh Resource materials for repurposing.
Work with the industry to encourage ‘design for recycling’ in the repurposing of materials – reducing waste, integrating ‘end-of-life’ planning at design stage.
Support innovation, research and initiatives that foster better recycling practices and technology.

https://www.globalrecyclingday.com/about/


1974 - The five-month-old Arab oil embargo against the U.S. was lifted.  In the U.S., the embargo had caused long lines at gas stations, prices soared 300 percent amid shortages and a government ban on Sunday gas sales.

Birthday

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) the 22nd and 24th U.S. president. . He was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms and was also the only president to be married in the White House.


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Updated 17 March 2018, 18 March 2013

5 January - History and Importance of the Day

1896 - Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of x-rays

1914
Henry Ford introduced minimum wage of $5 per day.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0105.html#article
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/henry-ford-man-who-made-history-january-5th-1914-srivatsav-balan/

1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) formed as German Farmers Party
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1930 - Mao Tse-tung wrote "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
          http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_6.htm
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission.



2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.


Birthdays

1855 King C.Gillette - inventor - safety razor

1876
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/adenauer_konrad.shtml


http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/january-5/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/5/default.stm

5 January Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Updated 9 January 2018,  5 January 2015

27 September - History and Importance of the Day

World Tourism Day

http://nraonid.blogspot.in/2012/01/world-tourism-day-27-september.html

World Maritime Day

Google Website Launch Day

19th Birthday - 2017  Source: Google.com

                                                      Source: Google.com  date 2015

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70 - Walls of  Upper City of Jerusalem were battered down by Romans

1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius Loyola

1787 - Constitution of USA submitted to states for ratification

1908 - Henry Ford First Model T automobile leaves the Piquette plant of Detroit, Michigan

1910 - First test flight of twin engined air plane

1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures

1998 - Google website was launched.

Birthdays

1627 - Bishop Bossuet born

1722 -  Birthday of American revolutionary leader Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts. He helped  to ignite the revolution and served as a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.

1916 - Prof Joan Woodward - Industrial Sociology

1932 - Oliver Williamson





27 September - History of India

27 September - Knowledge History

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year


Updated 27 September 2017, 27 September 2015

Important History Events of Day in Hindi - July

5 July
1975: 31 साल के अमरीकी टेनिस खिलाड़ी आर्थर ऐश पांच जुलाई 1975 को विंबलडन की एकल प्रतियोगिता जीतने वाले पहले काले आदमी थे.
http://aajtak.intoday.in/education/story/5-july-day-in-indian-and-world-history-in-hindi-1-820951.html

14 December History and Importance of the Day

644 - Osman ibn Affan was appointed Third Caliph or Khalifa or Kalief of Islam

1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapsed -  loss of 50,000 lives

1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales

1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presented  a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

1911 - South Pole reached by Norwegian Ronald Amundsen

1915 - Jack Johnson became First black world heavyweight boxing champion

1937 - Japanese troops conquered and plundered Nanjing

1967 - DNA was created in a test tube

2003 - President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

2014 - Miss World Pageant

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Games and Sports

1974 - Vivian Richards scored his first Test Cricket century 192 vs India with 20 fours and 6 sixes.


Music Historyhttp://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/dec14.htm

Updated  28 May 2017, 21 November 2014

15 March History and Importance of The Day

World Disabled Day

World Consumer Rights Day

Hungary National day



44 B.C. - Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate chamber in Rome by Brutus and fellow conspirators.

1744 French King Louis XV declared war on Britain

1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/62396.html

1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)

1906 Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered

2016 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1

Birthday

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) the 7th U.S. President.  Jackson gained fame as a hero during the War of 1812. He helped in the formation of the new Democratic Party and became the first man from an impoverished background to be elected President, serving from 1829 to 1837.





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Updated 15 March 2017, 15 March 2013

27 November - History and Importance of the Day

1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1295 - English King Edward I calls meeting of people representatives.
1839 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1895 - Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1962 - 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1966 - Uruguay adopts constitution

2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian Cricket Player, died today due to the hit he suffered on his head by a cricket in a sheffield Shield match.
            https://in.news.yahoo.com/cricket-world-quick-respond-death-hughes-083241419.html

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Birthdays

1701 - Anders Celsius, Sweden, (proposed the Celsius temperature scale)
1746 - Birthday  of Robert R. Livingston, jurist, statesman, USA.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov27.html
1940 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], karate star/actor (Enter The Dragon), born in San Francisco, California





History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

Updated 27 November 2016, 20 November 2015

26 November - History and Importance of the Day

World Anti-Obesity Day


43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony was formed.

1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving

1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit

1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1942 Film Casablanca released in USA - Allied Expeditionary forces secured firm hold in North Africa in November 1942.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov26.html
1948 - 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store.
1949 - Free India adopted the new constitution
1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
2008 - Mumbai was attacked by terrorists. Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India




Birthday

1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning.
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German Empire, Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)







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Terrorist Attack on Mumbai

26/11/2008
Mumbai was attacked by terrorists
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India

News coverage on 26/11/2011
Recall 60 hours of terror
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=3426002

Silent prayers of Bollywood
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=5625984


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25 November - History and Importance of the Day

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year


26 November - History of Discoveries and Inventions

26 November - History of India


Updated  27 November 2016, 26 November 2015

23 August - History and Importance of the Day

International Day - Abolition of slave trade


1991 - New users were allowed to register on WWW. On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, inviting collaborators. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet, although new users could only access it after August 23.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web


1999 - Blogger was started by Pyra Labs
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21 August - History and Importance of the Day

World Entrepreneurs’ Day

1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Hawaii to the Union as the 50th state.

1983 - Filipino opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., was assassinated at the Manila airport while leaving his plane. Public outcry over the killing ultimately led to the collapse of the government of Ferdinand E. Marcos and the inauguration of Corazon C. Aquino, as president.
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8 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Redcross Day

Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation - II World War

Mother's Day (2016)  Second Sunday May



 1942 - During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea began in which Japan would suffer its first defeat of the war.

May 8, 1945 - A second German surrender ceremony was held in Berlin. This time, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the surrender document which declared, as did the first, that hostilities would end as of 12:01 a.m. on May 9th.

Birthdays

International Red Cross founder and Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910). He was also a founder of the YMCA and organized the Geneva Conventions of 1863 and 1864.

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) the 33rd U.S. President. He became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Truman then authorized the dropping of the bombs on Japan..


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1 May - History and Importance of The Day

May Day

Observed as May Day, a holiday and spring festival since ancient times, also observed in socialist countries as a workers' holiday or Labor Day.




1707 - Great Britain was formed from a union between England and Scotland. The union included Wales which had already been part of England since the 1500's. The United Kingdom today consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/acts_of_union_01.shtml

2004 - Eight former Communist nations and two Mediterranean countries joined the European Union (EU) marking its largest-ever expansion. The new members included Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, along with the island of Malta and the Greek portion of the island of Cyprus. They joined 15 countries already in the EU, representing in all 450 million persons.

Birthday - African American Olympic athlete Archie Williams (1915-1993). Williams won a gold medal in the 400-meter race.

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http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/may.htm

History Books - Bibliography

A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East [6 volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East

Spencer C. Tucker
ABC-CLIO, 23-Dec-2009 - History - 2777 pages


Now from ABC-CLIO, long regarded as a premier publisher of military history, comes a monumental resource that encapsulates the entire scope of conflict among human societies. Spanning nearly five millennia, from the earliest documented fighting to the present, A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, provides a comprehensive survey of major military events. With coverage that reaches beyond the battles, this work examines the political and diplomatic forces driving world conflicts, revolutions, forced changes of governments, international treaties, and acts of aggression and terrorism.

Written by acclaimed military historian Spencer C. Tucker, these six chronologically organized volumes offer an accessible, richly detailed timeline of military conflict across human history. The concise entries cover all important events on the battlefield and in the corridors of power, with special features highlighting hundreds of key leaders and weapon systems. From specific data on casualties to coverage of evolving weapons technology to insightful analyses of the social impact of war, A Global Chronology of Conflict is an essential resource for students, researchers, history buffs, and general readers alike.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC

History of The Roman Legions: History of Rome

Several Authors
Self-Publish, 17-Dec-2015 - 940 pages


 An extraordinary eBook. Over 800 pages, 42 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of Tancredi Scarpelli, Italian illustrator, 30 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of great painters, various illustrations black and white in the text. All the texts of this eBook are free available on the web. Why buy it? Because the book is a resource that provide to a considerable added-value:

it coordinates, in logical way, to gather texts scattered on the web

the images in full-color and in black and white

list of films set in ancient Rome

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=OLQ2CwAAQBAJ

30 April History and Importance of the Day

International Jazz Day

Netherlands National day
Vietnam Liberation Unification Day


313 - Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeated Maximinus II and unified the Eastern Roman Empire.

1789 - George Washington became the first U.S. President as he was administered the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in New York City.



April 30, 1967 - Boxer Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the American military. He had claimed religious exemption.




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