Tag: History

Shimla, Nov 25 Keekli Bureau 2016 Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin...

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 the law and no longer subject to...

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 Story, the first entirely computer-animated feature-length film,...

Shimla, Nov. 21 2017 After some 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe—first as prime minister and later as president—Robert Mugabe resigned from office as the parliament began impeachment proceedings against him. 2002 A North Atlantic...

Shimla, Keekli Bureu, Nov. 19   2017 American criminal and cult leader Charles Manson—whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the 1960s, notably those at the home of Sharon Tate—died in prison at...

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 at age 40 after a long battle...

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 Angeles. 1989 Massive antigovernment demonstrations in Czechoslovakia were set...

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 at age 94. 1988 Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister...

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 of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured the...

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 the X-Men for Marvel Comics—died at age...

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 his fourth term in office—had irregularities, a...

Shimla, Oct. 29 Keekli Bureau 2015 It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. 1995 Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy...