On This Day
15 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1817 Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj, was born in Kolkata. He is also the father of Rabindranath Tagore.
- 1907 Sukhdev Thapar, Indian revolutionary, was born. He worked to make India independent from the British Raj along with his best friends and partners Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru. The trio were hanged on 23 March, 1931.
- 1991 Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, Odia poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist, and essayist, died. He is famous for his magnum opus Matira Manisha. He has been awarded Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi award for contribution to Odia literature.
- 1993 Field Marshal K M Cariappa, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, passed away. He led Indian forces on the Western Front during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in 1949.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1618 German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovered the third of his three planetary laws.
- 1859 Pierre Curie, French physicist, was born. He was a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He was the co-winner, with his wife, Marie Curie, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
- 1886 Emily Dickinson, American poet, died. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
- 1988 The Soviet Union started withdrawing its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
- 1989 Soviet President Gorbachev visited Beijing for the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Day of Families was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 and reflects the importance the international community attaches to families.
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