Tag: History

Delhi, Jan. 31 - The 13 day long Khelo India Zanskar winter sports and youth festival concluded at Zanskar Valley of the Union Territory of Ladakh. The festival, first of its...

Shimla, Jan. 2020 The United Kingdom formally left the European Union, more than three years after the country voted for “Brexit.” 2001 Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am...

Shimla, Jan   2011 California became the first state to celebrate Fred Korematsu Day, which honoured the Japanese American activist who was convicted in 1942 of violating an exclusion order requiring him to relocate;...

Shimla, Jan 2002 Swedish children's writer Astrid Lindgren—who was best known for her works involving Pippi Longstocking, a freckle-faced red-haired nine-year-old who incarnates every child's dream of freedom and power—died in Stockholm. 1958 Godtfred Kirk...

Shimla, Jan 2020 American basketball player Kobe Bryant—who was considered one of the sport's greatest players, winning five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers—died in a helicopter crash at the age of...

Shimla, Jan. 25 2017 American actress Mary Tyler Moore, who helped redefine the portrayal of women on TV with her roles in the comedies The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66) and The Mary...

Shimla, Jan 24 2003 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security came into being as Tom Ridge was sworn in as the agency's first secretary. 1993 American lawyer and civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall, who was...

Shimla, Jan 2017 After an unexpected victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Republican Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. 2001 Amid a corruption scandal that...

Shimla 2004 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on Mars to study the chemical and physical composition of the planet's surface. 2001 Hillary Clinton was sworn in as a U.S. senator from New York, having...

2011 The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) debuted on television. 1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, eliminating most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the...

Shimla, Dec. 31 2019 The World Health Organization first learned of “viral pneumonia” cases in Wuhan, China; the disease was later determined to be COVID-19, which became a global pandemic the following year. 2004 Taipei...

Shimla, Dec 28 2016 American actress and singer Debbie Reynolds died, a day after the sudden and unexpected death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, who was a noted actress and writer. 2008 The Detroit Lions...