Tag: This Day in History

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...

2018 American politician George H.W. Bush, who was the 41st president of the United States (1989–93), died at the age of 94. 2007 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel—who was known for his death-defying stunts,...

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,...

Shimla, Nov. 26 Keekli Bureau 2008 Ten gunmen—who were believed to be connected to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization—launched a series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai (Bombay); the siege ended three days later,...

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. 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. 15 Keekli Bureau 2011 Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 903rd career win, surpassing Bob Knight to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's history. 2001 Microsoft released Xbox,...

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...