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Every day's significant events become history over time. Those events take place there, which are good, which are first, which are the curse-blessing of mankind.
The agenda of history has always been important to people. Keeping this importance in mind, Bangladesh regularly organizes 'Today's History' for its readers.
Today is Monday, 22 April 2024 English, 12 Baishakh 1431 Bengali, 15 Shawwal 1445 Hijri. Take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, the birth and death dates of prominent people and other important things.
Events:
1792 – The first guillotine is installed in Parry.
1859 – Suez Canal digging begins.
1882 – Khulna District was formed.
1901 – New York becomes the first US state to introduce automobile plates.
1915 – Battle of Gallipoli begins.
1966 – A terrible earthquake reduced the city of Tashkent to rubble.
1972 – Laos recognized Bangladesh as an independent country.
1975 – First free elections held in Portugal in 50 years.
1982 – Israel completes troop withdrawal from the Sisnai Valley in accordance with the Camp David Accords.
1989 – Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takashita resigns after being accused of involvement in a bribery scandal.
Birth:
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician.
1848 – Tom Armitage, English cricketer.
1849 – Felix Cline, German mathematician and educator.
1850 – Louise Adolphe Lee Bayau, German composer.
1872 – Charles Burgess Fry, English cricketer.
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and engineer, Nobel laureate.
1886 – Charles Kelleway, Australian cricketer.
1892 – Eminent Bengali educationist Jitendramohan Sen.
1898 – Viesnati Alessandra, Spanish poet laureate.
1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian Nobel laureate physicist.
1900 – Gladwin Jebb, English politician, diplomat and Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1903 – Andrei Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and educator.
1918 – Gerard Day. Vauchouleurs, French astronomer.
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor.
1927 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book writer.
1930 – Roy Marshall, West Indian cricketer.
1938 – Manvendra Banerjee is a famous Bengali poet, essayist and translator.
1940 – Al Pacino, American stage and film actor.
Death:
1077 – Geza I, King of Hungary.
1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian writer, poet and philosopher.
1774 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer.
1800 – William Cowper, English poet.
1840 – Seaman Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist.
1878 – Anna Sewell, English writer.
1911 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer.
1940 – Famous journalist and writer Maulvi Mujibur Rahman.
1948 – Girijashankar Chakraborty, classical raga music artist. 1968 – Bengali revolutionary and famous doctor Jatindranath Ghoshal.
1972 – George Sanders, English actor.
1973 – Vinod Chandra Chakraborty, revolutionary in the Indian subcontinent's anti-British independence movement.
1975 – Falguni Mukherjee, Bengali writer.
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