1542
Akbar Abul-Fath Djalaluddin, third Mughal Emperor of India (1556-1605), was born at Amarkot in Sind under the protection of Rana Virsal. Humayun had also taken refuge at Amarkot.
1676
King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.
1686
Aurangzeb attacked and conquered Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi’s era.
1878
Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co.
1888
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper ‘Sudharak’.
1917
Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French after being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans.
1918
Shirdi Ke Saibaba’ better known as ‘Saibaba’ passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was the saint of all caste and creed people.
1932
First Indian commercial airliner service ‘Tata Sons Ltd’ started. (Tata Airlines)
1946
Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.
1949
Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states – Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged.
1966
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale establish the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist political group, in the US.
1977
The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.
1987
Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.
2000
Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand.
2003
China launches its first manned space mission, Shenzhou I.
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