This Day in History

🇮🇳 India

1920 The 10th and first dalit President of the country, K R Narayanan was born.

1947 After the partition of India and Pakistan, Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir Hari Singh acceded to India. This led to a war between the two countries.

1974 Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam, Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry, died. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973. Like his namesake Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ramanujam also had a very short life.

1975 Vayalar Ramavarma, also known as Vayalar, poet and lyricist of Malayalam language, died. He was known for his poems which include Sargasangeetham, Mulankaadu, Padamudrakal, Aayisha and Oru Judas Janikkunnu and for around 1300 songs he penned for 256 Malayalam films.

🌍 International

1917 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections.

1932 American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born.

1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire.

1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward a Middle East accord.

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