Tag: This Day in History
This Day in History
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...
This Day in History
Shimla, Jan
2018
American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who was best known for tales of science fiction and fantasy imbued with concern for character development and language, died at the age of...
This Day in History
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...
This Day in History
Shimla, Jan
2010
Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, officially opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
2007
U.S. politician Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker of the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman to hold...
This Day in History
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...
This Day in History
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...
This Day in History
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...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 27 Keekli Bureau
2015
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly—who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined—died in Spencertown, New...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 27 Keekli Bureau
Today Boxing Day
Boxing Day is celebrated as a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
2006
American politician Gerald R. Ford—who was the 38th...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 25
2006
American singer and songwriter James Brown, known as “the Godfather of Soul,” died at the age of 73.Test your knowledge of music
1991
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the presidency of the Soviet...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 24
2008
English playwright Harold Pinter, who achieved international renown—and was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists, died at...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 23 Keekli Bureau
2013
Russian weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov—who invented the AK-47 (automatic Kalashnikov Model 1947), an assault rifle that became one of the most successful and ubiquitous firearms of the...