1781Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore.
1859Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, who laid the foundation of Tata Steel, was born.
1958The metric system in weights and measures, adopted by the Indian Parliament with the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, came into effect.
1976Mukesh Mathur, Indian playback singer for Bollywood films, died of a heart attack at 53.
1979Louis Mountbatten, British naval officer and statesman, last Viceroy of India (1947), was assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland at 79.
2006Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director, passed away.
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1910Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures, using a phonograph, in his New Jersey laboratory.
1912Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.
1945U.S. troops began landing in Japan after Japan's surrender in World War 2.
1950First transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC.
1955Guinness Book of World Records first published.
2003Mars made its closest approach to earth in 60,000 years.
2008Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American nominated by a major political party for the office of President of the United States.
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