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10 June

🇮🇳 In India

0892 Ponaka Kanakamma, social worker, activist and freedom fighter, was born. During the freedom struggle, she was imprisoned over a year, as a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

1955 Prakash Padukone, former Indian badminton player, was born. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980 and the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1972 and the Padma Shri in 1982 by the Government of India.

2019 Girish Karnad, a top playwright, actor and director and a rights activist, died in Bangalore after a prolonged illness.

🌎 Elsewhere

1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm and collected ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar, enabling him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity.

1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician and physicist who worked out the connection between electricity and magnetism, died in Marseille, France.

1907 Colour photography was introduced. The process was invented by the legendary Lumière brothers.

1963 American President John F Kennedy signed an equal pay for equal work law for men and women.

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