On This Day
7 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1920 Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitarist and composer, was born in Benares, India.. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world.
- 2004 Kelucharan Mohapatra, legendary Indian classical dancer, guru, and exponent of Odissi dance, died. He is credited with the revival and popularizing of this classical dance form in the 20th century. He is the first person to receive the Padma Vibhushan from Odisha.
- 2015 India's National Green Tribunal passed a series of stringent measures aimed at curbing air pollution in New Delhi.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1948 The World Health Organization was established. The WHO is a United Nations agency concerned with fighting disease and epidemics worldwide, building up national health services, and improving health education in its 194 member states.
- 1969 The internet was born. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) awarded a contract to build a precursor of today's world wide web to BBN Technologies. The date is widely considered as the internet's symbolic birthday.
- 2001 NASA launched the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which reached Mars in October and transmitted photos and other data back to scientists on Earth.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Health Day is celebrated annually, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations, and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.
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