Today’s Events
1629 – King Charles I dissolves Parliament of England. Parliament did not function for the next eleven years.
1735 – Russian forces withdraw from Baku, Azerbaijan, following a treaty made between Russia and Nadir Shah of Iran.
1801 – The first census is taken in Britain.
1804 – Louisiana Purchase: The official handover of Louisiana from France to the United States is held in St. Louis, Missouri.
1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces are defeated at Lavon in France.
1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is formed.
1848 – The US Congress adopts the Treaty of Guadalupe Guadalupe to end the Mexican-American War.
1865 – Amy Spain, an American slave woman, was hanged for stealing from her master.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first successful telephone call.
1893 – Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1902 – The Turkish city of Dochangri was completely destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – 1,099 workers die in a coal mine accident at Courieres in northern France.
1909 – Thailand ceded the sovereignty of Peninsular Malaysia including Kataram, Klanthan, Perlis and Terengganu to Britain under the Anglo-Siamese Treaty.
1911 – The fifth census in Sri Lanka recorded 40,441 people in Jaffna out of a total population of 4,092,973.[1]
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of sedition. However, he was released after two years due to appendicitis.
1933 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Long Beach, California, killing 120 people.
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1948 – Indian Union Muslim League Party was founded.
1952 – A military coup led by Pulgencio Bautista succeeds in Cuba.
1959 – Tibetan Uprising: Tens of thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama’s residence, fearing abduction by China.
1970 – Vietnam War: US General Ernest Medina is indicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1977 – Astronomers discover rings around the planet Uranus.
1982 – All the planets were found to line up on one side of the Sun.
1990 – Prosper Avril is removed from office in a military coup in August.
2003 – A LTTE merchant ship was attacked and sunk by the Sri Lankan Navy, killing 11 militants.
2006 – Mars rover reaches Mars.
2011 – An 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a landslide in the northeastern part of Onsu Island, Sabah. A large number of people died.
Today’s Birthdays
1760 – Thomas Mailland, 2nd Governor of British Ceylon (d. 1824)
1762 – Jeremiah Benjamin Richter, German chemist (d. 1807)
1798 – Pierre Frederic Sarsou, French mathematician (d. 1861)
1845 – Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1867 – Lillian de Wald, American nurse and humanitarian (d. 1940)
1884 – Ma. Mangalammal, Elamite Gandhian, social reformer, feminist, politician (d. 1971)
1886 – Sekaveera Pandyan, Tamil scholar (d. 1967)
1914 – Ka. B. Ratnam, Sri Lankan Tamil scholar, politician (d. 2010)
1920 – Maniammaiyar, Dravidar Kazhagam leader, orator, writer (d. 1978)
1921 – m. V. Rajamma, South Indian film actress (d. 1999)
1932 – Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian physicist and engineer
1933 – Bhavalare Perunchithiranar, Tamil philosopher (d. 1995)
1933 – Fruit. Nedumaran, Tamil Nadu politician, Tamil Nationalist
1934 – M. K. Narayanan, Kerala politician
1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman
1939 – Asghar Ali engineer, Indian activist, writer (d. 2013)
1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
1949 – Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist
1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian founder of Al Qaeda (d. 2011)
1957 – Thanu Padmanabhan, Indian physicist, professor (d. 2021)
1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress
1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor
1974 – Biz Stone, American entrepreneur who founded Twitter
1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
Today’s Deaths
1872 – Giuseppe Masini, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1805)
1897 – Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (b. 1831)
1913 – Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (b. 1820)
1966 – Brits Zerniki, Nobel Prize-winning Dutch physicist (b. 1888)
1973 – Kulikkarai Kalidas Pillai, Tamil Nadu muralist (b. 1913)
1978 – Popili King, South Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madras Province (b. 1901)
1979 – S. D. Sundaram, Tamil Nadu writer, playwright, actor, poet, film director (b. 1921)
1999 – Kusumakarasu, Marathi writer (b. 1912)
2001 – c. J. Eliezer, Eelam-Australian mathematician, Tamil national activist (b. 1918)
2012 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Prize-winning American chemist (b. 1927)
2016 – B. M. Bunniameen, Sri Lankan writer, publisher, journalist, Wikipedian (b. 1960)
Today is a special day
Tibetan Uprising Day