10 December History and Importance of The Day

Human Rights Day

1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant.


1901 - Nobel prizes announced for the first time. 1st Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy.

1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

1932 - King Rama VII granted Thailand a constitution

1936 - King Edward VIII abdicated throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson

1948 - UN General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The day being  celebrated as Human Rights Day.

1995 - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)

2012 - Google began selling of US$99 laptops

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Birthdays

1878 - Raja Gopalachary (Rajaji), India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India.


10 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
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3 December - History and Importance of the Day

International Day of Disabled Persons



1621 - Galileo invented telescope
           http://cnx.org/content/m11932/latest/

1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US

1835 - 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy

1922 - 1st successful technicolor movie -Toll of the Sea - was shown in NYC
           History of Technicolor
           http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/04/entertainment/ca-50659

1964 - Arrests of Free Speech Movement people in Berkeley, California
           http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/sixtiesprotest/berkeley.htm

1984 - Worst Industrial Disaster - Bhopal - Union Carbide Gas Leakage Tragedy
           http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-03/india/28061521_1_compensation-gas-affected-persons-bhopal-gas-tragedy


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2012

Google made an advertisement for free and open internet on its home page
https://www.google.com/takeaction/



Birthdays

1960 - Daryl Hannah, Chicago, Illinois, American actress (Splash, Blade Runner)

1960 - Julianne Moore, Fayetteville North Carolina, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright)

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24 November History and Importance of the Day

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)

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25 November - History and Importance of the Day

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women


2015
On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women we say again:
It is not acceptable.
It is not inevitable.
It can be prevented.
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/11/ed-message-intl-day-for-elimination-of-violence-against-women


2014 - On the international day for the elimination of violence against women on 25 November, women’s rights organisation Womankind Worldwide is urging donors to pay more than lip service to the work of women’s rights groups across the globe by committing to fund projects for at least 10 years.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/25/gender-inequality-domestic-violence-womankind-worldwide

25 November - Important History Events on the Day

1839 - A cyclone with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroyed the port city of Coringa, presently in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh State, India. The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/23/stories/2009112353850400.htm
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/coringas-relic-of-the-past/article3379198.ece
http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/pre1900s/1839/

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.

1933 - 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 80 meters (261 feet)

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


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25 November - History of Discoveries and Inventions

23 November History and Importance of the Day

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.

Birthdays

Franklin Pierce - President USA (1804),
1837 - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/waals-bio.html
IIT JEE - http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2008/02/ideal-gas-equation-van-der-waals.html

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

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23 Novembers - History of Discoveries and Inventions

13 November - History and Importance of the Day

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.

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15 - January - History and Importance of the Day

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.

1988 - Dream Debut by a bowler. Narendra Hirwani took 8 wickets in both innings
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/magazine/default_aty.html?date=01-15

2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.




Birthdays

1929 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.




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