1828Brahmo Samaj founded by Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore in Calcutta.
1856Sree Narayana Guru
Sree Narayana Guru, philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer, was born in Chempazhanthy, Thiruvananthapuram. He led a reform movement against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality.
1897Ronald Ross identified malaria-causing anopheles mosquito while working at the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
1921Start of Mopala Rebellion in Malabar, Kerala.
1944Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi was born.
1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India.
2014B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped popularize Yoga in the West, died at the age of 95.
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1667John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve.
1896Dial telephone patented.
1913700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
1940Radar is used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain.
1975The robotic U.S. spacecraft Viking 1, built to explore the surface of Mars, was launched this day in 1975 and nearly one year later landed on Chryse Planitia, a flat lowland region in the northern hemisphere of the planet.
1975Viking 1 is launched by NASA using a Titan launch vehicle. It became the first space probe to successfully land on Mars.
1977Voyager 2 space probe is launched by NASA to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It is the first human-made object to fly by Neptune. As of July 2019, Voyager 2 continued to return data from five instruments as it travels through interstellar space. Eventually, there will not be enough electricity to power even one instrument. Then, Voyager 2 will silently continue its journey among the stars.
1988The Iran-Iraq War came to an end after seven years. The deadly conventional war between the two Middle Eastern countries began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980.
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