Tag: This day that year
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct, 28 Keekli Bureau
2007
Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina.
1971
Great Britain launched Prospero, its first Earth satellite.
1967
American actress Julia Roberts, whose...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 25
2002
Irish actor Richard Harris—who was notable not only for his formidable talent in portraying the intense, volatile, and rebellious hell-raising characters that established his image but also for conducting...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 24 Keekli Bureau
2003
Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work.
1987
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent,...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 23 Keekli Bureau
2003
Soong Mei-ling, the second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek and a powerful political figure in her own right, died at age 106.
2001
Apple introduced the...
This Day in History
Shimla Oct. 21 Keekli Bureau
2018
American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Veep, was officially awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the highest...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 20 Keekli Bureau
2014
Dominican-born American fashion designer Oscar de la Renta—whose work, blending European luxury with American ease, helped define standards of elegant dressing among socialites, U.S. first ladies, and...
This Day In History
Shimla, Oct 19 Keekli Bureau
2003
Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work.
1987
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent,...
This Day in the History
Shimla, Oct 17, Keekli Bureau
2018
Recreational marijuana became legal in Canada.
2005
The Colbert Report—an ironic send-up of television news programs, hosted by Stephen Colbert—debuted on Comedy Central; it ran until 2014.
1972
American rapper and...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 16 Keekli Bureau
2003
Hungarian boxer László Papp—who was the first three-time Olympic boxing champion, winning gold medals in 1948, 1952, and 1956—died at age 77.
1968
During the awards ceremony for the...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 15 Keekli Bureau
2018
American investor and philanthropist Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft, died at age 65.
2003
China became the third country to launch a crewed spaceflight; Shenzhou 5, which was piloted...
This Day in History
Shimla, Oct. 14 Keekli Bureau
2012
Two days after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the space shuttle Endeavour reached its final destination, the California Space Center; its 12-mile journey through the city...