TODAY’s HISTORY

Know what Happen in history on same day.

28^th September

1066

William the conqueror invaded England, beginning the Norman conquest.

1907

Revolutionary Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh was born.

1928

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the antibiotic effects of penicillin. 

1929

One of the India's greatest playback singer and dadasaheb Phalke winners, Lata Mangeshkar was born.

1934

French actress and screen legend, Brigitte Bardot was born.

1953

Edwin Hubble, the famous American astronomer after whom the Hubble Telescope is named, died at age of 63

1970

Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, one of the lights of the Non-Aligned Movement passed away.

1982

Bollywood hearthrob Ranbir Kapoor and ace shooter Abhina Bindra were born today.

1989

Former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, whose corrupt regime spanned over twenty years. died in exile in Hawaii, 3 yrs after being driven from his country by a popular front led by Corazon Anquino.

2004

Noted Indian novelist, Mulk Raj Anand died at age of 89.

2008

Fernando Alonso won the Singapore Grand Prix in formula One's first night race.

2009

Spain's Pablo Pineda became the first actor with Down's

syndrome to win an international film award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. 

   

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         27^th September

        

    ·       1825

              o  The world’s first public rail service was inaugurated in Britain, when George Stephenson( Invented steam engine )  drove his own steam locomotive, Active on a 27-mile track.

   ·       1930

o  Polish resistance against the invading Nazi and Soviet forces effectively ended with the surrender of Warsaw.

   ·       1940

o  Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, a 10-year military and economic alliance strengthening the Axis alliance.

   ·       1960

o  The British feminist Sylvia Pankhurst died , who established the militant Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903.

   ·       1996

o  After an 8-year civil war, the Taliban, seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged President Najibullah.

   ·       2003

o  European Space Agency’s first moon mission, SMART 1, was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

   ·       2003

o  Scientists at the MIT created history by cooling a gas below 1 nano kelvin ( one-billionth of a degree ) for the first time

   ·       2007

o  NASA launched Dawn, the first robotic space craft to explore the two most massive members of the asteroid belt, Vesta( one of the largest asteroid ) and the dwarf planet ceres .

   ·       2008

o  Mahendra Kapoor ( Born 1934 ), was the playback singer who rendered patriotic songs like Mere Desh Ki Dharti, died.

   ·       2008

o  Astronaut Zhai Zhigang aboard the Shenzhou 7 conducted China the nation to successfully carry out a spacewalk in Earth’s orbit.
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·       26^th September

o  1580

-          Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, in Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to circumnavigate the planet.

o  1918

-         The Meuse-Argonne offensive, the last major battle of World War 1 began when a combined force of French and American troops attacked fortified German positions along the western front.

o  1923

-         Dev Anand was born, evergreen Bollywood actor and director who won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002.

o  1932

     -  Dr. Manmohan Singh, current Prime Minister of               India was born.

o  1959

-         The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Solomon Bandaranaike, was assassinated by a Budhist monk.

o  1960

-         The general election debates between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy, the Democrate senator and Richard M. Nixon, the vice President, was shown on television for the first time in U.S. history,

o  2002

-         A Senegalese ferry( boat or ship carrying passengers ) Le Joola capsized off the coast of The Gambia, killing more than 1800 people. The sinking of the ferry Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in numbers of lives lost.

o  2006

-         Shinzo Abe became the youngest Prime Minister of Japan since World War 2 at the age of 52.

o  2008

-         Swiss pilot and inventor “ jetman ” Yves Rossy became the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing.