Tag: History
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. 17 Keekli Bureau
2008
The first film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight Saga, a vampire-themed series of novels for teenagers, premiered in Los...
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...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 13 Keekli Bureau
2001
On the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, the army...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov.12 Keekli Bureau
2018
American comic book writer Stan Lee—who helped create such iconic characters and teams as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 10 Keekli Bureau
2019
Bolivian labour leader Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, resigned under pressure after monitors claimed that the election—for...
