1066
William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings.
1705
The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain.
1773
Britain’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md.
1806
Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany.
1884
Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
1884
Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, was born at Delhi.
1910
Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama’s agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
1930
The Flag of Freedom’ or ‘Swaraj Toran’ a feature film produced by Prabhat Film Co.Kolhapur was prohibited by the Censor Board on October 14, 1930 on the grounds that it was objectionable in the existing political situation. The film, however, was cleared only after deleting certain portions and the title changed to ‘Udaykal’.
1940
Cliff Richards [Harry Webb], rock vocalist, was born in Lucknow, India.
1950
Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
1955
Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
1956
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.
1985
Assam Ganparishad established.
1989
Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
1998
Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
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