Tag: History

Shimla, Dec. 14 2013 Irish actor Peter O'Toole, who captivated audiences with performances that showcased his versatility in roles ranging from classical drama to contemporary farce during a seven-decade stage and screen career,...

2015 A landmark climate change agreement was reached at a UN conference in Paris as 195 countries agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions; the accord effectively replaced the Kyoto Protocol. 2009 With the victory...

Shimla, Dec. 9 Keekli Bureau 2016 South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was impeached by the National Assembly amid allegations of corruption; she left office the following year, after the country's Constitutional Court upheld...

Shimla, Dec. 8 Keekli Bureau 2016 American astronaut and politician John Glenn—who was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, for which he was regarded as a national hero—died at age 95. 2010 The American...

Shimla, Dec. 6 Keekli Bureau 2006 NASA released images—taken by the Mars Global Surveyor—that indicated the relatively recent presence of water on Mars. 1992 The Babri Masjid (“Mosque of Bābur”) in Ayodhya was destroyed by...

Shimla, Dec. 4 Keekli Bureau 2000 Surinamese politician Henck Arron, who helped Suriname gain its independence (1975) from the Netherlands and served as prime minister (1973–80) until being overthrown by the military, died...

Shimla, Dec. 3 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who spoke of and to the everyday struggles and triumphs of African Americans, died in Chicago. 1967 Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first...

Shimla, Dec 2, Keekli Bureau 2014 Canadian ice hockey player Jean Béliveau, considered one of the game's greatest centres, noted for his prolific scoring, died at age 83. 2001 Following revelations of massive accounting fraud,...

Shimla, Dec. 1 Keekli Bureau 2000 Vicente Fox was inaugurated as president of Mexico, ending the dominance of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had ruled since 1929. 1988 The first World AIDS Day was held. 1959 The...

Shimla, Nov 28. Keekli Bureau 2001 George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the age of 58. 1997 In a ceremony that was broadcast around the world by satellite, some 28,000 couples...

Shimla, Nov. 28 Keekli Bureau 2012 Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a series of movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book, had its world premiere in New Zealand. 1989 Queen Latifah...

Shimla, Nov. 27, Keekli Bureau 2014 British mystery novelist P.D. James—who earned the sobriquet “Queen of Crime,” primarily for her 14 novels featuring the fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard—died in Oxford,...