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On This Day: Provisional Government of Free India was announced, Nobel Prize awarded to Pablo Neruda and more

 1296 |  Mughal ruler Alauddin Khilji took the throne of Delhi. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1931 | Famous Indian actor and director Shammi Kapoor was born. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1951 | The Bhartiya Jana Sangh was established by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1959 | 20 Indian troops were attacked by the Chinese in Ladakh. Ten Indian policemen were martyred while seven other troops were imprisoned by the Chinese, but they managed to escape later. (Representational Image: Shutterstock)
1971 | Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Pablo Neruda. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1990 | In an iconic event, Brazilian F1 driver Ayrton Senna crashed his McLaren into his rival during the Japanese Grand Prix to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship. (Image: Reuters)
2012 | Famous Indian filmmaker and the romance king of Bollywood Yash Chopra passed away. (Image: Reuters)
2013 | The Parliament of Canada conferred Honorary Canadian citizenship on Malala Yousafzai. (Image: Reuters)
2017 | The Spanish government suspended Catalonia’s autonomy during a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Sino-India war started, Muammar Gaddafi and his son were killed and more

1950 |  Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock demonstrated the use of gas chromatography. The technique was rapidly adopted by the global petrochemical industry. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1955 | The third and final volume of The Lord of the Rings, “The Return of the King”, was published. (Image: Wikipedia)
1973 | Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the doors of the Sydney Opera House.
1978 | India’s aggressive right-hand batsman Virender Sehwag was born. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1991 | A devastating earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hit Uttarkashi in India killing more than 1,000 people. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1996 | Pakistani cricketers Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq set a new Test cricket record 8th wicket by scoring 313 runs against Zimbabwe. (Image: Reuters)
2011 | Former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi and his son Moatassem Gaddafi were killed in the custody of NTC fighters, shortly after the civil war, the Battle of Sirte. (Image: Reuters)
2021 | The Brazilian Senate inquiry said that President Jair Bolsonaro should be charged for nine crimes, including crimes against humanity, for his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Mother Teresa beatified, Napoleon retreated from Russia and more

1812 | The French invasion of Russia fails as Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to retreat from Russia. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1900 | Max Planck discovers Planck’s law. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1910 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian astrophysicist, astronomer and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize, was born. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1950 | Mother Teresa establishes the Missionary of Charities in Kolkata. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1956 | Hindi actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol was born. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1970 | The Indian Air Force incorporates the first indigenously built MiG-21 aircraft into its fleet. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1987 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average witnesses its biggest single-day percentage drop. The day is called Black Monday. (Image: Shutterstock)
2003 | Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. (Image: Reuters)
2005 | Saddam Hussein is placed on trial by the Iraqi Special Tribunal on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Veerappan was killed; BBC was established and more

1867 | The US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia after paying USD 7.2 million. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1922 | The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was established. (Image: Shutterstock)
1950 | Famous Indian actor Om Puri was born. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1967 | The first Soviet Probe Venera 4 entered Venus’ atmosphere becoming the first space probe ever to enter another planet’s atmosphere.  (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1967 | An animated musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ was released by Walt Disney. (Image: Youtube)
1972 | The SA 315, India’s first multipurpose helicopter was tested in Bangalore. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1980 | The first Himalayan Car Rally was flagged off from Brabourne Stadium, Bombay (Mumbai). (Image: Overdrive)
2007 | Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after eight years in exile. The same night, suicide bombers blew themselves up near Bhutto’s convoy, killing over 100. Bhutto managed to escape uninjured. (Image: Reuters)
2008 | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati returned 189.25 acres of land to the Railway Ministry for the Modern Railway Coach factory in Rae Bareli. (Image: Reuters)
2019 | The first all-female spacewalk in history by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir was performed outside the International Space Station. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Dr BR Ambedkar converted to Buddhism, Chuck Yeager flew faster than the speed of sound and more

1884 |  The paper strip photographic film was patented by George Eastman, founder of the Kodak company. (Image: Shutterstock)
1892 |  “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was published for the first time by Arthur Conan Doyle as a collection of 12 stories serially in “The Strand Magazine”. (Image: Shutterstock)
1926 | The famous cartoon ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ made his literary debut in a collection of short stories. (Image: Shutterstock)
1947 | Chuck Yeager became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine-powered aircraft. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1964 |  American social activist, Martin Luther King Jr. was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1991 |  Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for “her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.” (Image: Shutterstock)
1994 |   Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, fifth Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli leader Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize. (Image: Reuters)
2001 |  German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won his fourth F1 World Drivers Championship title. (Image: Reuters)
2019 | The Booker Prize was jointly awarded to Margaret Atwood for “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo for “Girl, Woman, Other” who became the first black woman to win the prize. (Image: Reuters)

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On This Day: Kishore Kumar died; first Spiral Galaxy was discovered and more

1773 |  Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, the first spiral galaxy. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1792 | The first cornerstone for the White House was laid marking the beginning of its construction. (Image: Shutterstock)
1860 | The first ever aerial photograph was taken in the US from a balloon. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1924 | Mecca fell without a struggle to the Saudi forces. (Image: Shutterstock)
1925 | Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s first Woman Prime Minister, was born. (Image: Shutterstock)
1943 | Italy declared war on Nazi Germany in World War 2. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1964 | The Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 successfully returned to the earth carrying a record three-person crew. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2002 | Michael Schumacher won the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his third straight World Drivers Championship title. (Image: Reuters)
2004 | Famous Bollywood actress Nirupa Roy suffered a cardiac arrest and died at the age of 73. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2021 | Hollywood actor William Shatner became the oldest person to reach space, travelling aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Manmohan Singh inaugurated first train service in Kashmir Valley, Amitabh Bachchan was born and more

1737 |  A devastating earthquake reportedly killed 3 lakh people and destroyed half of Calcutta (now Kolkata). (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1939 |  Albert Einstein informed then-US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the possibility of an atomic bomb, during World War 2. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1942 |  Bollywood great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Image: Reuters)
1945 |  The Chinese civil war began between the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong’s Communist Party. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1984 |  The first spacewalk by US woman Dr Kathryn D Sullivan was performed. (Image: Reuters)
2019 |  The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for brokering the peace deal with Eritrea. (Image: Reuters)
2019 | Former Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli scored his career-best 254 not out to move past 7,000 Test runs. (Image: Reuters)
2020 |  British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the Eifel Grand Prix to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 Formula 1 victories. (Image: Reuters)
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On This Day: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai won Nobel Peace Prize, RK Narayan was Born and more

1846 | Triton, the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune, was discovered by British astronomer William Lassell. (Image: Shutterstock)
1865 | The billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) was patented by John Wesley Hyatt in New York. (Image: Shutterstock)
1906 | Famous Indian novelist and author of the iconic Malgudi Days RK Narayan was born. (Image: Wikipedia)
1954 | Famous Bollywood actress Rekha was born. (Image: Wikipedia)
1967 | The Outer Space Treaty, also known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, was enforced. (Image: Wikipedia)
1992 | The second Hooghly Bridge (after the iconic Howrah Bridge) the ‘Vidyasagar Setu’ opened. (Image: Wikipedia)
2002 | Former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan was elected to the Pakistani Parliament after winning the seat of Mianwali-I. (Image: Wikipedia)
2003 | Iranian political activist Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights. She became the first Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize. (Image: Instagram)
2011 | India’s famous and one of the most celebrated Ghazal singers Jagjit Singh passed away. (Image: Instagram)
2021 | Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said that Taiwan won’t bow down to the Chinese in a defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “fulfil reunification.” (Image: Wikipedia)
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October 9: Indian Territorial Army was inaugurated; Google bought YouTube, and more

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On October 9, 2012, women’s rights and education activist, Malala Yousafzai was shot three times by Taliban terrorists on her way back home from school.

On October 9, 1949, the Indian Territorial Army was officially inaugurated by the first Indian Governor-General, C Rajagopalachari. Originally raised by the British through the Indian Territorial Act of 1920, the Territorial Army consists of volunteers who receive limited military training for their services in the event of a national emergency.

On the same day in 2006, Alphabet Inc’s Google announced the purchase of the video streaming platform YouTube for a then-hefty sum of $1.65 billion. Today, the amount may seem less as it now equates to WhatsApp being worth about 13 YouTubes, but at the time it was an eye-popping figure to pay for a year-and-a-half-old start-up. At the time, some analysts and competitors considered Google to be overpaying.

Here are some more historical events that make October 9 a special day in world history.

1941

US President Franklin D Roosevelt approved the atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project during World War II.

1945

Famous Indian musician and sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was born.

2004

The first Afghan presidential election was held after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

2006

Tech giant Google officially announced the acquisition of YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion.

2011

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel clinched his second consecutive Formula 1 World Drivers Championship title.

2012

Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai was shot three times by a Taliban gunman while boarding her school bus in northwest Pakistan. She survived the attack and has since become a leading voice for women’s rights and the education of girls in the world.

2017

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company after multiple allegations of sexual abuse.

2017

American economist Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

2019

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Goodenough became the oldest Nobel Prize winner at the age of 97.

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On This Day: Indian Air Force was established; world’s first internal pacemaker was implanted and more

1936 |  Munshi Premchand, famous Hindi writer and novelist, died. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1945 | The patent for the Microwave oven was received by US inventor Percy Spencer. (Representational Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1958 | Dr Ake Senning installed the first internal pacemaker in a 43-year-old man in Stockholm, Sweden. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet author, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Image: Reuters)
1998 |  José Saramago became the first person from Portugal to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Image: Reuters)
2000 | German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship and the first of 5 straight F1 World Drivers Championships. (Image: Reuters)
2004 | Wangari Maathai from Kenya became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”. (Image: Reuters)
2005 | A disastrous earthquake occurred in the Pakistan-administered portion of the Kashmir region, which also affected adjacent parts of India and Afghanistan. At least 79,000 people were killed in the earthquake and more than 32,000 buildings collapsed in Kashmir, making it one of the most destructive earthquakes in recent times. (Image: Reuters)
2021 | Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression”. (Image: Reuters)