New Delhi. American space laboratory Sky Lab fell in the Indian Ocean and West Australia. On this day, Sova Bazar Club became the first Indian team to participate in a football tournament. Apart from this, a lot happened on this day in Indian and world history, let’s take a look at today’s history
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected the ruler of the Roman Empire.
1630 – Begum Rezabibeh Sukis, the first foreign woman to come to Kolkata, died.
1673 – Defense treaty signed between Netherlands and Denmark.
1832 – British Parliament rejected the appeal of Carapanthi Hindus against the abolition of Sati Pratha.
1857- Birth of Indian judge and politician C. Shankaran Nair.
1889 – Sova Bazar Club became the first Indian team to participate in a football tournament.
1896 – Wilfrid Laurier took oath as the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.
1902- Birth of Sardar Baldev Singh, famous freedom fighter, politician and first Defence Minister of India.
1912- Famous French ophthalmologist Ferdinand Monoyer passed away.
1921- Mongolia became independent from China.
1930- Famous cricketer Bradman scored 309 runs in one day against England in Leeds.
1948- First air attack took place in Jerusalem.
1957- Founding member of Muslim League Aga Khan passed away.
1973- 122 people died when a Brazilian Boeing plane crashed near Paris.
1977- Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Medal of Freedom.
1979- American space laboratory Sky Lab fell in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
1995- Diplomatic relations were established between America and Vietnam.
1995 – More than 7000 people were massacred in Bosnia.
2002 – Chang Sang became the first woman Prime Minister of South Korea.
2003 – Dosti Bus started in Lahore and Sada-e-Sarhad Bus started from Delhi.
2003 – Indian writer Bhisham Sahni passed away.
2006 – 209 people died in a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai’s suburban trains.
2010 – Spain won the title by defeating Netherlands in the final of the Football World Cup.
