Historical Events
Historic Event
1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
- 1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket’s Ranji Trophy
- 1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
Historic Event
2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country is now a “space power” after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile test
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Famous Birthdays
- 1925 John Bayley, English academic and writer (Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch), born in Lahore, British India (d. 2015)
Famous Deaths
- 1898 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan dies at 80
