1809
Charles Darwin, the renowned British naturalist known for formulating the theory of evolution through natural selection, was born in Shrewsbury, England.
1809
Abraham Lincoln, who later became the 16th President of the United States, was born in Kentucky, USA.
1920
Switzerland’s neutrality received formal recognition from the League of Nations.
1948
The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were immersed at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj.
1974
Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.
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