Tag: This day that year
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 27 Keekli Bureau
Today Boxing Day
Boxing Day is celebrated as a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
2006
American...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 24
2008
English playwright Harold Pinter, who achieved international renown—and was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—as one of the most complex and...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 23 Keekli Bureau
2013
Russian weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov—who invented the AK-47 (automatic Kalashnikov Model 1947), an assault rifle that became one of the...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 22 Keekli Bureau
2010
U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy regarding the service of homosexuals in...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 21
2012
The music video for South Korean singer Psy's humorous pop song Gangnam Style became the first video on YouTube to garner one...
This Day in History
Shimla, Dec. 19 Keekli Bureau
2012
Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea; she was sworn into office the following...
