Tag: This Day in History
This Day in History
Delhi, Nov.11
2004
Yasser Arafat—who was president (1996–2004) of the Palestinian Authority (PA), chairman (1969–2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 9 Keekli Bureau
2004
Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, a year before The Girl with the...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov 7. Keekli Bureau
2016
American Attorney and public official Janet Reno, who was the first female attorney general (1993–2001) of the United States, died...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 6 Keekli Bureau
2012
American politician Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, became the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S....
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov.5 Keekli Bureau
2013
India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned.
1998
The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing...
This Day in History
Shimla, Nov. 3 Keekli Bureau
2016
After trailing in the series 3–1, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians to capture the franchise's first World Series...
