This Day in "History"

[Thakur]

June 16

455 Rome is sacked by the Vandal army.

1815 Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny.

1858 Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

1864 The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish.

1907 The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg.

1910 The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane Washington.

1925 France accepts a German proposal for a security pact.

1932 The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.

1935 President Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives.

1940 French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany.

1952 Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.

1955 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959.

1961 Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.

1971 An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI.

1977 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.
Born on June 16

1888 Bobby Clark, comedian and actor.

1890 Stan Laurel, British-born entertainer, partner of Oliver Hardy.

1902 Barbara McClintock, geneticist.

1902 George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist.

1917 Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post.

1917 Irving Penn, fashion photographer, brother of film director Arthur Penn.

1920 John Howard Griffin, writer (Black Like Me).

1935 Jim Dine, American artist.

1938 Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer.

1938 Joyce Carol Oates, American writer and university professor (Them, Garden of Earthly Delights).

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 16

16-June-1605
Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-
ud-Din), Mughal emperor
of India (1556-1605),
passed away of diarrhoea
or dysentery at the age of
63 years. At Akbar's
graveside, stood
conspicious in his
simplicity, Jesuit priest
Father Xavier who always
remained his devoted
friend. (16 or 17).

16-June-1859
Anandram Dhekial Fukun,
father of modern Assamia
poetry and essay writer,
passed away.

16-June-1893
Karumuttu Thiagarajan
Chettiar, social worker
and industrialist, was
born at Athikkadu Thekkur
in Tamil Nadu.

16-June-1920
Hemant Chaudhary,
famous singer and music
director, was born.

16-June-1925
Chittaranjan Das, great
freedom fighter,
revolutionary, orator, poet,
journalist and lawyer,
died.

16-June-1934
M. Muthuraman, noted
Hindi writer and
professor, was born at
Dindigul in Madurai
(Tamil Nadu).

16-June-1946
Britain invites Indian
leaders to set up an
interim govt at London.

16-June-1946
C. Rajagopalchari became
the Governor of West
Bengal (1947) in Interim
Government.
16-June-1946
Cabinet Mission
negotiations were
discontinued. Viceroy
proposed Interim
Government.

16-June-1950
Mithun Chakravorty,
famous Hindi film actor,
was born.

16-June-1951
Nehru opponents founded
People's party at New
Delhi.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

16-June-1990
GOI announces higher
procurement/minimum
support prices for all
major kharif crops.
16-June-1992
P. D. Dhhavle, former
editor of daily newspaper
`Maharashtra', passed
away.
16-June-1993
Harshad Mehta accuses
PM of taking Rs. 1 crore
payoff from him in
November 1991; Rao
terms it malicious and
unfounded.
16-June-1997
P. Sukumaran (50),
Malayalam film actor,
died in Kochi.
16-June-1997
K. R. Narayanan, Vice-
President, is the joint
candidate of Congress(I)
and United Front for
Presidentship in July 14
election.
16-June-1998
Sheikh Hasina,
Bangladesh Prime
Minister, meets her
Indian couterpart A B
Vajpayee in New Delhi.

 

[Thakur]

Today in History
June 17

362 Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco Bay for England.
1775 The British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston, after a costly battle.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Italy into his empire.
1848 Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushes a Czech uprising in Prague.
1854 The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China.
1856 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon.
1863 On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
1872 George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas–a town which had previously been "dry."
1876 General George Crook’s command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
1912 The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hangar in Friedrichshafen.
1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1917 The Russian Duma meets in secret session in Petrograd and votes for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.
1924 The Fascist militia marches into Rome.
1926 Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join.
1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.
1931 British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
1932 The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.
1940 The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
1942 Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication.
1944 French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1950 Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago.
1953 Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
1965 27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam.
1970 North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
1972 Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
1994 Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson–facing murder charges–drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police.
Born on June 17

1239 Edward I (Longshanks), King of England (1272-1307).
1703 John Wesley, English evangelist and theologian, founder of the Methodist movement.
1742 William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1871 James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man).
1880 Carl Van Vechten, writer.
1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born U.S. composer (The Rite of Spring, The Firebird).
1914 John Hersey, novelist and journalist (Men of Bataan, Hiroshima).
1942 Rod Padgett, poet.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 18

18-June-1633
Revairu Diogu, dictionary
creator of Konkani
language and Jezoet
Priest, died.

18-June-1658
Aurangzeb managed to
capture the Agra Fort and
later arrested his father
Emperor Shahjahan.

18-June-1858
Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
died while fighting with
the British troops in the
battlefield near Gwalior.

18-June-1879
Venketeshwar Bachhali,
famous physics scientist,
was born.

18-June-1887
Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh,
freedom fighter,
educationist, leader and
Minister of India, was
born in Poiyavan village,
Gaya district, Bihar.

18-June-1896
Cota Ramaswami, cricketer
(Davis Cup for India 1922,
Test 1936), was born in
Madras.

18-June-1901
Ramchandra Bhikaji
Gunjikar, Marathi novelist
and editor, passed away.

18-June-1917
Lachhmansingh Gill,
famous politician and
former chief minister, was
born.
18-June-1918

A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous
poet of Malayalam
language, critic and
master of grammer,
passed away.

18-June-1926
Bhishma Singh Chauhan,
great author, was born at
Naglajula (U.P).

18-June-1940
Forward Block Party was
established.

18-June-1943
British Field Marshal
Archibald Wavell becomes
Viceroy of India.

18-June-1946
First Satyagraha
movement was started for
Goa liberation from the
Portuguese.

18-June-1946
Congress Working
Committee decides to
accept Interim
Government scheme.

18-June-1956
New Hindu Succession Act
was passed.

18-June-1966
California's hippie
subculture converged into
a mass of long hair,
flowers, and rock music
this weekend, as 50,000
flowed into the
fairgrounds of the
Monterey International
Pop Festival. The event
featured the largest
collection of major rock
acts ever assembled;
thousands of fans had to
be turned away from the
sold-out concert.
Established artists such
as the Byrds, Jefferson
Airplane, Otis Redding,
and the Mamas and the
Papas received the
expected ovations from
the huge audience. But
the response was equally
enthusiastic for
performances by Indian
sitar master Ravi Shankar
and new talents Janis
Joplin, the Who, and Jimi
Hendrix, a young man
who played the electric
guitar like nobody else.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

18-June-1974
Govinddas Seth, Hindi
litterateur and politician,
died.

18-June-1978
The Karakoram Highway,
linking Gilgit in Pakistan-
occupied Kashmir with
Sinkiang in China, is
opened.

18-June-1979
Sri Lanka beat India by 47
runs in Cricket World Cup
upset.

18-June-1988
V.P.Singh defeats
Congress rival Sunil
Shastri in Allahabad Lok
Sabha election.

18-June-1989
India and Pakistan decide
to end the five-year-old
confrontation in Siachen
Glacier area by
redeploying their forces.

18-June-1991
Congress emerges as the
largest party in Lok Sabha
polls though short of an
absolute majority.

18-June-1992
Congress (I) chooses Dr.
Shankar Dayal Sharma as
Presidential candidate.

18-June-1993
Advani takes over as party
President.

18-June-1993
Sunil Mittal,
businessman, denies
getting any money from
Harshad Mehta.

18-June-1993
The 14th national council
of the BJP at Bangalore
swears by Hindutva.

18-June-1994
The strength of the Sikkim
Sangram Parishad
ministry led by
Sanchaman Limboo
reduced to 14 in the 32-
member house.

18-June-1995
The latest deaths in
northern India's hottest
weather this century
bring the death toll to
525 as temperatures hit
113¦F (45¦C) in New
Delhi.

18-June-1996
CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao,
relative of Narasimha Rao,
and Prakash Yadav, son of
former Union Minister, in
the urea scam.

18-June-1997
E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief
Minister, meets Pope John
Paul II in Vatican.

18-June-1997
Prakash Padukone
launches IBC.

18-June-2000
K.M. Beenamol breaks
P.T. Usha's record in
400m at 51.21 sec in an
international meet at Kiev
in Ukraine.

 

[Thakur]

Today in History
June 18

1155 German-born Frederick I, Barbarossa, is crowned emperor of Rome.
1667 The Dutch fleet sails up the Thames River and threatens London.
1778 British troops evacuate Philadelphia.
1812 The War of 1812 begins when the United States declares war against Great Britain.
1815 At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon is defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington.
1863 After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the siege of Vicksburg.
1864 At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege.
1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for president.
1918 Allied forces on the Western Front begin their largest counter-attack yet against the German army.
1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane.
1936 Mobster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano is found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
1942 The U.S. Navy commissions its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1944 The U.S. First Army breaks through the German lines on the Cotentin Peninsula and cuts off the German-held port of Cherbourg.
1945 Organized Japanese resistance ends on the island of Mindanao.
1951 General Vo Nguyen Giap ends his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.
1953 South Korean President Syngman Rhee releases Korean non-repatriate POWs against the will of the United Nations.
1959 A Federal Court annuls the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.
1966 Samuel Nabrit becomes the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.
1979 President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt II pact to limit nuclear arms.
1983 Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Born on June 18

1581 Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and courtier.
1812 Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov).
1857 Henry Clay Folger, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
1877 James Montgomery Flagg, American artist and author.
1896 Blanche Sweet, film actress.
1937 Gail Godwin, writer (The Perfectionists, The Southern Family).
1942 Paul McCartney, songwriter and singer, member of the Beatles.
1949 Chris Van Allsburg, children’s author and illustrator (Jumanji, The Polar Express).

 

[Thakur]

Today in History
June 19

240 BC Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks.
1778 General George Washington’s troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training.
1821 The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.
1846 The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey.
1848 The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, New York.
1861 Virginians, in what will soon be West Virginia, elect Francis Pierpoint as their provisional governor.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South.
1864 The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France.
1867 Mexican Emperor Maximillian is executed.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France.
1903 The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.
1919 Mustafa Kemal founds the Turkish National Congress at Ankara and denounces the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum.
1934 The National Archives and Records Administration is established.
1937 The town of Bilbao, Spain, falls to the Nationalist forces.
1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Roosevelt.
1944 U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas.
1951 President Harry S. Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18.
1958 Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism.
1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain.
1963 Soviet cosmonaut, Valentia Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space.
1965 Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky becomes South Vietnam’s youngest premier at age 34.
1968 Over 50,000 people march on Washington, D.C. to support the Poor People’s Campaign.
1973 The Case-Church Amendment prevents further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
1987 The U.S. Supreme Court voids the Louisiana law requiring schools to teach creationism.
1995 The Richmond Virginia Planning Commission approves plans to place a memorial statue of tennis professional Arthur Ashe.
Born on June 19

1566 James I, King of England (1603-1625).
1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher.
1897 Moe Howard, comic actor, one of the Three Stooges.
1900 Laura Hobson, novelist (Gentleman’s Agreement).
1903 Henry Louis Gehrig, professional baseball player.
1919 Pauline Kael, American film critic, author.
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1991).
1945 Tobias Wolff, American writer (This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, The Night in Question).
1947 Salman Rushdie, British author (Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses).

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 19

19-June-1747
Nadirshaha passed away.

19-June-1871
Madhavrao Sapre was born.

19-June-1877
Pandurang Chimanaji Patil,
famous agriculturist of
Maharashtra, was born.

19-June-1901
Raj Chandra Bose, Indian
mathematician and
statistician, was born at
Hosangabad in Madhya
Pradesh. He made many
valuable contributions to the
subject. He discovered new
codes for telecommunication.
In 1976, America's highest
honour to a scientist came
to Bose as he was elected
Fellow of the US Academy of
Sciences.

19-June-1931
Nandini Satpathy, politician,
was born at Cuttack in
Orissa.

19-June-1947
Salman Rushdie, English
writer, was born in Bombay.

19-June-1949
People of Chandernagar, the
French Indian Settlement,
decided to merge with the
Indian Union.

19-June-1966
Shiv Sena was established.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

19-June-1979
Morarji Desai resigns after
split in Janata Party.

19-June-1981
APPLE, India's first
experimental geo-stationary
telecommunication satellite
having experimental
communication satellite,
successfully launched by
European Ariane, Kourou,
French Guiana. This is the
first to be stabilized on 3
axes

19-June-1990
NDC approves approach
paper to the Eighth Plan.

19-June-1990
13 Sri Lankan Tamils,
including EPRLF Secretary
General Padmanabha, were
shot dead in Madras
reportedly by LTTE men.

19-June-1991
Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I)
sworn in as the Maharashtra
CM.

19-June-1995
In an unprecedented move,
UP Speaker Dhani Ram
Verma adjourns the two-day
special session called to
prove Mayavati Government's
majority in the House. Later,
the House gathers, rejects
the sine die adjournment
and unanimously elects B.R.
Verma (BSP) as new presiding
officer to conduct the
business of the House.

19-June-1995
India and US officially
launch Indo-US Commercial
Alliance during US Trade
Secretary's visit.

19-June-1996
Kerala LDF govt. decides to
reopen the ISRO espionage
case, which was closed by
the CBI.

19-June-1997
Indian flag cargo ship, M. V.
Arcadia Pride, sinks in
inclement weather, seven
nautical miles off Colaba,
Mumbai, leaving four sailors
dead and 20 missing. In the
rescue and search operation
by the Indian Navy, nine
persons were rescued.

19-June-1997
Indian Prime Minister and
his Pakistani counterpart
Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first
time on restored hotline, to
reiterate their committment
to comprehensive dialogue,
including Kashmir.

19-June-1999
The ''people's bus'' from
Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and
is formally received by the
Prime Minister and his
Bangladesh counterpart.

19-June-2000
Babu Parmanand, former
speaker of the Jammu and
Kashmir Assembly, sworn in
as the 12th Governor of
Haryana.

19-June-2000
Salgocar wins the
Pondicherry Millennium All
India Football tournament in
Pondicherry.