43 BC
Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1778
British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1922
English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1931
Gandhi announces a new civil disobedience campaign in the nationalist newspaper ‘Young India’.
1949
New Constitution of India adopted and signed. The constitution of India was framed by a Constituent Assembly set up under the Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946. The Assembly held its first meeting on December 9, 1946 and elected Dr.Rajendra Prasad as its Chairman.
Newspaper Day.
1954
The Atomic Energy Commission starts functioning.
1960
First S.T.D. system of telephone (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) services started between Lucknow and Kanpur in India.
1989
General Election ( 9th) of India ends: Congress loses; V.P. Singh becomes Prime Minister. Anti-Congress wave in North; South India favours Congress. India to have a coalition govt. after the governing Congress party has its majority wiped out in general elections.
1997
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, scientific advisor to Defence Minister, chosen for Bharat Ratna.