Tag: This day that year

Shimla, Dec.5 Keekli Bureau 2017 The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Games in P'yŏngch'ang, South Korea, after uncovering a Russian state-sponsored doping program. 2013 South African nationalist and statesman Nelson Mandela,...

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...

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 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,...