Rabindranath Tagore

 

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He was born on  May 7, 1861. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. He died on  7 August 1941.

The first pope to enter a mosque

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque on 6th July 2001 during a trip to Syria.

International Midwives' Day

International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize and honor midwives came out of the 1987 International Confederation of Midwives conference in the Netherlands.

The inaugural Grammy Awards

 

\The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

World Press Freedom Day

The UN General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of press.

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden Killed

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 and he was the founder of  alQaeda, the jihadist organization that claimed responsibility for the September attack(9/11 attack in the United States in 2001 and other terrorist acts.) on the United States, along with numerous other  mass-casualty attack against civilian and military targets.  

 

On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of the United States naval Special Welfare Development group and Central Intelligence Agency operatives in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obhama.

Miles Axe Copeland III

 

Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, he is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records.  I.R.S. Records(A record label is a brand and a trademark  associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos)is a record label, launched in the US in 1979 by  Miles Axe Copeland III along with Jay Boberg  and Carl Grasso.

Gujarat & Maharashtra formed

The Bombay State was a state of India, split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960.

 

 The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 defined boundaries for the states within India on the basis of languages. The Bombay State  that was formed as a consequence of this act, however, was composed of different areas where different languages were spoken, so divide the Bombay State into two states

International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day or May Day is a celebration of the international labour movement on May .

Hitler committed suicide

 

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrebunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889  and he was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. 

Justice M. Fathima Beevi

Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. She is the first woman judge of a Supreme Court of a nation in India and Asia. She was born on April 30, 1927. 

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Harold Clayton Urey

Harold Clayton Urey was born on  April 29, 1893 and he was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He discovered deuterium and he played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matters.

International Dance Day

 

International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), UNESCO partner NGO, and is celebrated on April 29 every year.

Workers' Memorial Day

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning   takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791, he is an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, was a co-inventor of the Morse code, and also an accomplished painter.He died on April 2, 1872.

World Intellectual Property Day

World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on 26 April. The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000 to "raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life" and "to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovations to the development of societies across the globe.

A patent was granted for the thimble.

 

On April 25, 1684 a patent is granted for a thimble. A thimble is a small hard pitted cup worn for protection on the finger that pushes the needle in sewing.

 

world's first cloned dog

Snuppy also known as "doggy"; born April 24, 2005 Known for, First ever cloned dog is an Afghan hound, credited with being the world's first cloned dog.The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar was born April 24, 1973 in Bombay, India, to a middle-class family, the youngest of four children. His father was a professor while his mother worked for a life insurance company. Given his first cricket bat at the age 11, Tendulkar was just 16 when he became India's youngest Test cricketer.

World Book and Copyright Day

World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It is also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days.  In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognized on the first Thursday in March. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995.