Tag: History Today
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec.5 Keekli Bureau
2017
The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Games in P'yŏngch'ang, South Korea, after uncovering a Russian state-sponsored doping...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 24 Keekli Bureau
2001
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country's legal code that made women equal to men before...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov 22 Keekli Bureau
2005
German politician Angela Merkel was sworn in as the country's chancellor, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
1995
Pixar's Toy...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 20 Keekli Bureau
2015
American civil defense analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was released from prison, having served 30 years for selling classified information to...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 18 Keekli Bureau
2015
New Zealand rugby union football player Jonah Lomu, who was perhaps rugby's first global icon, died of a heart attack...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 16 Keekli Bureau
2006
American economist Milton Friedman, who was a leading proponent of monetarism and won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died...
