This is 336th Day in this year and 30 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS: 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with […]

This is 335th Day in this year and 30 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS: 1896–Mahatma Gandhi Left India with his family for Natal, South Africa on S.S. Courtland. S.S.Naderi also left about the same time. The two ships were carrying approximately 600 people to South Africa from India. 1931-Gandhiji spoke at the […]

This is 334th Day in this year and 31 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS: 1961 – The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico. 1961-First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came […]

This is 333rd Day in this year and 32 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS 1520-Ferdinand Magellan Reaches the Pacific Ocean On this day in 1520, famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan entered “The Sea of the South” having sailed from the Atlantic Ocean through the passage that now bears his name, the Straits […]

This is 332nd Day in this year and 33 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS 1895-Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel Prize 1969 – World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) was founded with the express objective of ensuring the conservation of the country’s wildlife and natural habitats. It was set up as […]

This is 331st Day in this year and 34 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS 1949-New Constitution of India adopted and signed. The constitution of India was framed by a Constituent Assembly set up under the Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946. The Assembly held its first meeting on December 9, 1946 and elected Dr.Rajendra Prasad […]

This is 330th Day in this year and 35 days are more to complete this year. EVENTS 1759–An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000. 1783-On this day in 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New […]