1920Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university located in New Delhi, was established by the efforts of former President Zakir Hussain.
1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two years following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
1985Boxer Vijendra Singh, who won India's first Olympic medal in boxing, was born.
1988Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom activist, passed away. She is most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement; for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India.
1999A massive cyclone sweeps through the state of Orissa, killing an unknown number of people and leaving thousands homeless.
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1911American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.
1927Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute.
1945First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Reynolds in the US.
1954Lee Child, author, creator of the Jack Reacher novel series was born.
1958Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize, but he is forced to decline it at the behest of Soviet authorities, who have banned his novel Doctor Zhivago.
1959Asterix & ObelixAsterix is first published in the French magazine Pilote by Rene Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo.
1960Cassius Clay's (later Muhammad Ali) first professional fight, beating Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky.
1969First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.
1991The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, an asteroid. It becomes the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1998John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77, becoming the oldest person to travel in space.
2015China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years. Beginning in 2016, couples could have two children.
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