On This Day
19 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1947 Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist, was born in Mumbai. He is the author of eleven novels.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1937 J M Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, died.
- 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar poet, Nobel peace laureate, was born.
- 1978 The first Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis appeared in 41 newspapers on this day. It currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.
- ⭐ Significance
- India observes National Reading Day on June 19. The celebration is marked in the honour of the father of the Library Movement, P N Panicker, who passed away on this day in 1995.
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