1933Mahatma Gandhi released from prison for health reasons. He had been on his fourth anti-untouchability fast to obtain privileges that would enable him to carry on his fight in behalf of the Harijans.
1947Vallabhbhai Patel was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of the country.
1986Shambhu Anbhavne found a place in Guinness World Record for typing 123 hours nonstop on a manual typewriter.
1995The country's first cellular phone was commercially introduced in Calcutta.
2011Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the origin of the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers and completed a comprehensive satellite study of the length of their route.
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0079Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire. The eruption buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum [approx date]. The excavations of these sites in the mid-18th century precipitated the modern science of archaeology.
1617First one-way streets open in London.
1839The British capture Hong Kong from China.
1914Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1924Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century.
1966Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1973A botched bank robbery in Stockholm resulted in a hostage situation, and, over the course of a six-day standoff, the captives formed an unlikely bond with their captor, giving rise to the term “Stockholm syndrome.”
1991The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
2007Hashtag invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina.
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