PSU Watch Bureau
The Bombay Gazette newspaper was first published in 1841 on silk cloth.
Twelve days after assassinating US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was killed at a Virginia farm either by a Federal soldier or by his own hand in 1865.
The great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam passed away in 1920.
In 1933, Hermann Göring formed the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany that ruthlessly eliminated opposition and was involved in the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps.
During the Spanish Civil War, the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica in 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica.
Sikkim became the 22nd state of India in 1975.
A devastating environmental catastrophe occurred early this morning in 1986 when an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Some sources state that 2 people were killed in the initial explosions, whereas others report that the figure was closer to 50. Several more people contracted serious radiation sickness and died later.
Actress Lucille Ball—a longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic comedy series I Love Lucy—died at the age of 77 in 1989.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country in 2008.
Amid numerous allegations of sexual assault, American comedian and actor Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, and he later received a sentence of 3 to 10 years in prison in 2018. His conviction, however, was overturned in 2021.