1803British Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats the Marathas at Assaye, India.
1908Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Ramdhari Singh, known by his nom de plume Dinkar, Indian Hindi poet, essayist, patriot and academic, who is considered one of the most important modern Hindi poets, was born. He emerged as a poet of rebellion as a consequence of his nationalist poetry written in the days before Indian independence.
2009The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) placed seven satellites in orbit, including the Indian satellite Ocean Sat-2.
🌎 Elsewhere
1806The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure. The aim of the mission was to explore the unknown territory, establish trade with the Natives and affirm the sovereignty of the United States in the region. One of their goals was to find a waterway from the US to the Pacific Ocean.
1846This day in 1846, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person ever to observe the planet Neptune, the existence of which had been mathematically predicted by Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams.
1932By royal decree the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd, along with its dependencies, was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1939Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London.
1955Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad. The Pact, later renamed the Central Treaty Organisation, was a military alliance of the Cold War. It was formed in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and the United Kingdom and dissolved in 1979.
1980Jamaican musician Bob Marley, who was especially known for popularizing reggae, performed his last concert, a sold-out show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he died of cancer the following year.
2002The first public version of Mozilla Firefox browser released; originally called Phoenix 0.1 its name was changed due to trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies.
⭐ Significance
International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated annually across the world on 23 September every year. The choice of 23 September is the same date that the World Federation of the Deaf was established in 1951.
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World Book Day 2024 | World Book Day and Copyright Day | Easy Lines about World Book Day |23rdApril
Today is World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book, which is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. Watch this video to know more about this day.
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