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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 25

1660 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II

1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier

1954 Bell labs announces the First Solar Battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 24

1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse

1877 Russo-Turkish War:Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire

1898 Spanish–American War:Spain declares war rejecting US ultimatum 2 withdraw 4m Cuba

1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 19

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the "Shot Heard Round the World" fired later that day in Concord

1995 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. including 19 children, and injuring 500 #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 18

1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican by Pope Julius II

1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city

1954 Egyptian Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasserseizes power and appoints himself Prime Minister #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 17

1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War

1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in the Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro

2012 The 8th century St.Cuthbert Gospel,Europe's oldest intact book,is purchased by the British Library for 9 mn pounds #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 16

1705 Queen Anne of England knights scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge

1900 US Post Office issues its first stamp booklets containing 12, 24, or 48 two-cent stamps

2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 15

1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London

1861 Federal army of 75,000 volunteers is mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War

1877 World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts. #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 14

1914 Dr.Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes typhus fever at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC

1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia,returns to Earth after 2 days& 6 hours in space

2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99% #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 13

1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, and Louis IX of France is captured

1860 First Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California

1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 12

Would you believe,if I said these were clicked on a fuel station?

You read it right. Nayara on NH-32(Chennai-Tindivanam-Trichy) is a perfect place for a stop over

Get access to clean toilets,purified water & most importantly the sight of beautiful Sunflowers along with Hibiscus & other varieties.

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 10

1407 Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and receives the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma

1516 Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area

1972 US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention
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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 8

1767 Ayutthaya Kingdom in present-day Thailand falls to Burmese invaders

1820 The famous ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos

1886 William Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill in the British House of Commons

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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 7

30 Scholars estimate for the crucifixion of Jesus by Roman troops in Jerusalem

1948 W.H.O. is formed by the United Nations

1968 Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1 #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 6

1453 Turkish forces under Sultan Mehmed IIbegin the siege of the Byzantine Empire's capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul), which falls on May 29

1652 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, is established by the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck

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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Apr 4

1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard his galleon, the "Golden Hind" at Deptford, England

1655 Battle of Porto Farina: English fleet defeats Barbary pirates in Tunis

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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 29

1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first federal election

1961 After a four-and-a-half-year trial, Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria

1999 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time ever #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 28

1854 Great Britain & France declare war on Russia,expanding Crimean War

1910 1st seaplane takes off 4m waterunder its own power,piloted by Henri Fabre 4m the Étangde Berre lagoon in Martigues,France

1939 Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Nationalists headed by Francisco Franco
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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 27

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

1625 Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascends the English throne

1977 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 26

1812 Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, and kills an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people

1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris who form the short lived Paris Commune government

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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 25

31 The first Easter is celebrated by Christians, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

1807 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire

1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia

1960 First guided missile launched from a nuclear powered submarine #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 24

1603 Scottish King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I

1837 Canada grants its Black citizens the right to vote

1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 22

1765 First direct British tax on American colonists, the Stamp Act, is passed by the British Parliament led by Prime Minister George Grenville

1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand #OnThisDay

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MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 20

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) is formed and granted a monopoly on all Dutch sea-borne trade with Asia

1815 Napoléon Bonaparte enters Paris after his escape from Elba, begins his 100-day rule

1854 Republican Party is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 19

1279 Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China

1920 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the 2nd time,refusing 2 ratify the League of Nations covenant & maintaining a policy of isolation

1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Sydney,Australia #OnThisDay

MJF Sarath Babu S @aryansarath.bsky.social · Mar 18

1890 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarckresigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II

1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agrees to join Germany's impending war effort in the west #OnThisDay