1648
English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1731
Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die
1759
Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk.
1858
Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).
1896
Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children.
1974
India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban.
1982
World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ held in New Delhi.
1987
Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1990
US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein.
