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, 8 April 2024 English, 25 Chaitra 1430 Bengali, 28 Ramadan 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.
History:
1010 – Poet Ferdowsi completed his famous epic Shahnama.
1080 – Pope Gregory deposes King Henry IV of Germany for the second time.
1722 – The Safavid Emperor of Iran is defeated by an Afghan army during the Battle of Gulnabad.
1817 – Establishment of the New York Stock Market.
1836 – Public library opened in Calcutta.
1865 – Construction of canal between North Sea and Amsterdam begins.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received his first telephone patent.
1894 – First dog license issued in New York City.
1911 – Today is celebrated as International Women's Day.
1917 – Jazz records are first sold commercially.
1917 – Russian Revolution begins in Petrograd.
1930 – Non-cooperation movement started under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
1942 – Short story writer Somen Chand was killed in an anti-fascist movement in Dhaka.
1949 – Independence of Vietnam within the French Union.
1950 – The Soviet Union claims possession of the atomic bomb.
1954 – East Bengal Assembly elections; Historic victory of the United Front defeating the ruling Muslim League, out of 237 Muslim seats, the United Front won 227 seats and the Muslim League 9 seats.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1972 – Government order issued to form National Guard in Bangladesh.
2020- Novel coronavirus patient identified in Bangladesh.
Birth:
1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer.
1854 – Tom Horan, Irish-born Australian cricketer.
1883 – 1944 Nobel laureate German physical chemist Otto Hahn.
1908 – Loknath Bal, Indian freedom fighter and armed revolutionary of Surya Sen.
1916 – Bengali writer Annapurna Goswami.
1956 – Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali fiction writer, novelist and short story writer.
Death:
1702 – William III, King of England.
1874 – Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States.
1930 – William Howard Taft 27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
1935 – Hachiko, the faithful dog Hachik.
1942 – Somen Chand, Marxist, writer.
1992 – Amita Tagore Rabindra Sangeet artist and poet.
2002 – Niranjan Dhar, rationalist sociologist and humanist historian.
2004 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front.
2021 – Shaheen Alam, Bangladeshi film actor.
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