1900Birsa Munda, tribal freedom fighter, religious leader, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe, died of cholera in Ranchi Central Jail, Ranchi.
1964Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India. Formerly the Minister of External Affairs, Shastri became the Indian Prime Minister after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, on 27 May 1964.
2011Maqbool Fida Husain, Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style, died. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century.
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1781George Stephenson, English engineer, inventor of the steam locomotive, was born in Newcastle, England.
1870Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, died in Gads Hill Place, United Kingdom. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
1898China leased Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years by a convention signed in Peking.
1928Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator, and his 4-man crew completed the world's first trans-Pacific flight from California to Brisbane.
1934Donald Duck
Walt Disney's Donald Duck, a short-tempered duck typically wearing a sailor suit, makes his film debut in The Wise Little Hen.
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