1763
Mir Kasim was defeated in ‘Katwa’ battle by Britishers.
1799
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovered a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic.
1898
Novelist Emile Zola fleed to France on this day in 1898 to escape from imprisonment after being convicted of libel against the French army in the notorious Dreyfus affair.
1925
Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P).
1938
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
1949
Raja of Tehri Garhwal announced merger with Indian Union.
1969
Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
1974
Udham Singh’s, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.
1979
On this day in 1979, two gigantic supertankers collided off the island of Little Tobago in the Caribbean Sea, killing 26 crew members and spilling 280,000 tons of crude oil into the sea. At the time, it was the worst oil-tanker accident in history and remains one of the very few times in history when two oil tankers have collided.
1990
Planning Commission decided to make changes in the Gadgil formula for central assistance to States in consultation with states.
1998
The INSAT-2C satellite suffered “disorientation” – loss of earth lock – briefly.
1998
Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
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Hi Prafull…. For the IAS exam on coming August 7 …by when are the questions most probably prepared…. So reading current Affairs for the Prelims should be continued….