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The significant events of daily life become history in 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, 9 Baishakh 1430 Bengali, 12 Shawwal 1445 Hijri. Take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, birth and death dates of prominent people and other important things.
Chronology:
1500 – Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil.
1662 – The Royal Society is formed in London.
1834 – Saint Helena becomes part of the British Empire.
1857 – South Australia's first parliament sits.
1890 – The Cuban people revolted against Spanish rule in the country.
1912 – Pravda newspaper is published from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1915 – Germans begin using poison gas in World War I.
1921 – Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from the Indian Civil Service.
1930 – Frontal battle with British troops in Chittagong Jalalabad hills led by revolutionary Masterda Suryasen.
1944 – The Allies enter New Guinea in World War II.
1948 – Israel attacked the port city of Haifa in the northwest of Palestine.
1970 – US Senator Gaylord Nelson introduced Women's Day.
1988 – Relations between the PLO and Syria normalize after five years of hostilities.
1998 – Disney Animal World opens in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Birth:
1451 – Isabella I, Queen of Castile.
1592 – Wilhelm Schickard, German polymath.
1707 – Henry Finding, English novelist and dramatist.
1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1766 – Germaine de Stahl, French philosopher and writer.
1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize-winning Belgian lawyer.
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Marxist Soviet revolutionary and communist politician.
1876 – Robert Barany, Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist.
1893 – Surendramohan Ghosh, freedom fighter and one of the stalwarts of Yugantar Dal.
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American writer.
1904 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning Italian neuroscientist.
1913 – Bertil Malmberg, Swedish linguist.
1916 – Kanan Devi, Indian actress and singer.
1919 – Donald James Cram, Nobel Prize-winning American chemist.
1929 – Michael Francis Attia, English mathematician.
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor.
1941 – Amir Newly, Israeli computer scientist.
1943 – Janet Evanovich, American writer.
[1945–GopalkrishnaGandhiIndianintellectualandGovernorofWestBengal
1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish politician and historian.
1959 – Ranjan Madugale, Sri Lankan cricketer.
1960 – Mart Laar, Estonian politician and 9th Prime Minister.
1974 – Chetan Bhagat, Indian novelist, essayist, orator and screenwriter.
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer.
1981 – Jonathan Trott, English cricketer.
1982 – Kaka, Brazilian footballer.
1987 – David Luiz, Brazilian footballer.
1987 – John Abi Mikel, Nigeria Football.
1989 – Jasper Killesen, Dutch footballer.
1992 – Rolene Strauss, South African Miss World winner.
Death:
1616 – Miguel de Tervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.
1782 – Anne Bonney, Irish female pirate.
1833 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer.
1892 – Edouard Lalo, French violinist and composer.
1899 – Ned Gregory, Australian international cricketer.
1933 – Henry Royce, motor vehicle designer.
[1945–KatheKolbitzGermanpainterandsculptor
1983 – Lamberto Mazzarani, Italian actor.
1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and writer.
1989 – Emilio Gino Segre, Italian physicist.
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.
1998 – Ayatollah Murtaza Burujardi, prominent Iraqi scholar.
2003 – Tarapada Santra, Bengali archaeologist and folklorist.
2006 – Alida Valli, Italian actress.
2008 – Shipra Bose, Bengali singer.
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