April 28 : Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

On This Day, 28 April...

224 – The Battle of Hormozdgān is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.

1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.

1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.

1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.

1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.

1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

1930 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.

1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.

1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.

1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.

1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.

1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.

1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number 1 in the US charts, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.

1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.

2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1980 relating to Ivorian crisis is adopted.

2015 – The National Football League announces it is giving up its tax-exempt status.

April 30 : Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

On this Day, April 30...

311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.

313 – Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.

642 – Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.

1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.

1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1513 – Edmund de la Pole, the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

1598 – Juan de Oñate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.

1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.

1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.

1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

1897 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[1]

1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

1905 – Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine Neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.

1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.

1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1937 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.

1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).

1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.

1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

1943 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.

1945 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.

1947 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time.

1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

1957 – Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.

1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

1966 – The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco

1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.

1980 – Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.

1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.

1982 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.

1992 – Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida bury a time capsule to be opened in 2042; 50 years after its burial.

1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

1994 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.

1997 – Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay. Her sitcom, Ellen, became one of the first major television shows featuring an openly gay main character.

2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2009 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.

2013 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.

Born

1870 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

1926 – Shrinivas Khale, Indian composer 

1964 – Tony Fernandes, Malaysian-Indian businessman, co-founded Tune Group

1981 – Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor

1987 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer

RIP

2011 – Dorjee Khandu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

2014 – Khaled Choudhury, Indian painter , and set designer

April 29 : Somewhere, someone else is happy with less than you have.

On this Day, 29 April...

1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.

1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.

1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.

1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

1834 – Charles Darwin during the second survey voyage of HMS Beagle, ascended the Bell mountain, Cerro La Campana on 17 August 1834, his visit is commemorated by a memorial plaque.[1]

1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.

1862 – American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.

1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

1903 – A 30 million cubic-meter landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.

1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

1916 – World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

1916 – Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.

1944 – World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.

1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.

1945 – World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.

1945 – Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.

1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.

1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

1970 – Vietnam War: the United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.

1975 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.

1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.

1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant

1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.

1991 – The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.

1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.

2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.

Born

1848 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter and academic

1891 – Bharathidasan, Indian poet, and activist

1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian bassist and conductor

RIP

1959 – Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar 

2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India

विव रिचर्ड्स : एमएस धोनी अभी भी देखने के लिए खिलाड़ी हैं।

नई दिल्ली: रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बैंगलोर के खिलाफ 34 गेंदों में एमएस धोनी के 70 रनों से बाहर नाबाद 70 रन बनाकर विवि रिचर्ड्स ने अपनी बल्लेबाजी क्षमताओं को एक बार फिर से डर दिया है। धोनी ने गेंद को सात बार खड़ा कर दिया, जिसमें हिट भी शामिल था, जिसमें जीतने वाले रनों को सील कर दिया गया क्योंकि चेन्नई सुपर किंग्स ने आरसीबी के 205/8 का पीछा किया।

धोनी फिर से बल्ले के साथ अपने सर्वश्रेष्ठ प्रदर्शन में वापस आ गए, जिससे खेल के अंतिम ओवर में उनकी टीम और प्रशंसकों की पूरी उम्मीद पूरी हो गई। वह और अंबाती (रायुडू) ने पीछा करने के लिए स्वर सेट करने के लिए शानदार प्रदर्शन किया, जो डीजे (ब्रावो) को भी विश्वास करते हुए विश्वास करने के लिए प्रेरित करते थे। चेन्नई कप्तान, उनकी मोहाली एंट्री के विपरीत, बैंगलोर में तुरंत शुरू हुआ था, जो था रिचर्ड्स ने लिखा, उन्होंने हाल ही में प्राप्त आलोचनाओं के बावजूद, वह अभी भी देखने के लिए खिलाड़ी हैं। हमेशा के रूप में, आदमी ने अपनी टीम को एक रोमांचकारी गेम में लाइन पर धक्का देने के लिए शांत रखा, जो हमेशा दोनों मामले में अतीत में मिले थे।

सीएसके और आरसीबी ने बुधवार की रात एम चिन्नास्वामी स्टेडियम में एक रोमांचक आईपीएल टकराव में कुल 33 छक्के लगाए, जिसमें सीएसके से एक महाकाव्य रन का पीछा करने वाले एबी डिविलियर्स और क्विनटन डी कोक ने सीमाओं की आग लगने के बाद घरों को देखा।

बुधवार को बैंगलोर में क्रिकेट का एक शानदार खेल था। आईपीएल में दो सर्वश्रेष्ठ टीमों ने एक-दूसरे का सामना करते समय मुझे विस्फोटक खेल की गंभीरता से उम्मीद थी। रिचर्ड्स ने लिखा, विराट कोहली के बैंगलोर लड़कों के खिलाफ धोनी की कप्तानी के तहत चेन्नई इस समय क्रिकेट में मिले सबसे भयंकर लड़ाई में से एक होगी।

दिलचस्प बात यह है कि घरेलू टीम ने दूसरी पारी में नौ ओवरों में चेन्नई के विस्फोटक शीर्ष क्रम बल्लेबाजी को और भी खारिज कर दिया। युजवेन्द्र चहल और उमेश यादव रन-फ्लो को कम करने के लिए काफी सटीक थे और एक साथ विकेट लेने के लिए पीछा करने वाली टीम के लिए आवश्यक दर के साथ पकड़ना मुश्किल था। लेकिन दबाव में कमी और नसों को पकड़ने के लिए चेन्नई को श्रेय दिया, उन्होंने लिखा।

April 27 : Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

On This Day, 27 April...

33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.

395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.

711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.

1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.

1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.

1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.

1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.

1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.

1667 – John Milton, blind and impoverished, sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).

1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.

1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land-grant institution.

1906 – The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.

1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.

1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.

1945 – World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.

1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.

1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.

1978 – the Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

1978 – The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1986 – The city of Pripyat, as well as the surrounding areas, are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.

1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

1989 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

1994 – South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.

2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.

2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.

Born

1912 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer.

1941 – Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist.

1976 – Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter, and critic.

RIP

2009 – Feroz Khan (actor), Indian Actor, Film Director & Producer.

2017 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician

April 26 : As a leader, it takes courage to do what is best for an organization, volunteer group, or family. Honestly, it takes courage with any relationship.

On This Day, 27 April...

1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.

1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).

1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces

1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliatory gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.

1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.

1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.

1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded

1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.

1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.

1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.

1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.

1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.

1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.

1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-Kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests

1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.

2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Born

1932 - Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar.

1940 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician.

1975 - Rahul Verma, Indian social worker & activist.

RIP

1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician, and theorist.

1987 – Shankar, Indian composer, and conductor.

Economic News

Arun Jaitley to chair the 27th GST Council meeting on May 4, simplifying returns on agenda 

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April 25 : Positive thinking does not mean that there are zero problems, but it means that you can cope and recover more easily, while at the same time you are able to look at a brighter side of any situation.

On this Day, 25 April...

404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.

775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.

799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of King Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.

1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.

1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

1707 – A coalition of England, the Netherlands, and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

1792 – "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire

1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.

1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.

1862 – American Civil War: Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.

1882 – French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.

1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.

1940 – Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.

1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

1945 – Elbe Day: the United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two.

1945 – Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.

1945 – United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.

1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.

1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.

1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.

1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.

1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.

1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

1983 – Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.

1988 – In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.

2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.

2004 – The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and other restrictions on abortion.

2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.

2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.

Born

1961 - Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American journalist, and author.

1943 - Devika, Actress.

1987 - Arijit Singh, Singer.

RIP

2005 – Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk and educator.

April 24 : Positive and confident people can brighten other people's mood.

On This Day, 24 April...

1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).

1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.

1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeat the troops of Schmalkaldic League.

1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.

1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".

1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.

1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".

1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.

1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

1916 – Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim the Irish Republic.

1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.

1918 – World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.

1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.

1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

1944 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.

1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.

1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.

1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."

1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.

1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in the death of 21 people.

Born

1929 – Dr. Rajkumar, Indian Actor, and Singer.

1934 – Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author.

1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer.

1987 – Varun Dhawan, Indian actor.

RIP

2011 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist.

2014 – Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician.

[Hindi] HISTORY OF BULANDSHAHR

बुलंदशहर भारत के उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य का एक जिला है। बुलंदशहर, अनूपशहर,जहांगीराबाद,खुर्जा, स्याना, डिबाई, सिकंदराबाद व शिकारपुर इसके प्रमुख नगर हैं व बुलन्दशहर नगर इस जनपद का मुख्यालय है। बुलंदशहर पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश में दिल्ली से ६४ किलोमीटर की दूरी पर बसा शहर है। साथ ही बहती है काली नदी। यह शहर मुखयतः सड़कों से मेरठ, अलीगढ़, बदायूं, गौतम बुद्ध नगर व गाजियाबाद से जुडा हुआ है। बुलंदशहर जनपद के नरौरा क्षेत्र में गंगा के किनारे भारत वर्ष में विद्यमान परमाणु विद्युत ताप ग्रह में से एक विद्युत ताप ग्रह स्थापित व सुचारू रूप से प्रयोग में है।

#इतिहास

#बुलन्दशहर का प्राचीन नाम बरन था। इसका इतिहास लगभग 1200 वर्ष पुराना है। इसकी स्थापना अहिबरन नाम के राजा ने की थी। बुलन्दशहर पर उन्होंने बरन टॉवर की नींव रखी थी। राजा अहिबरन ने एक सुरक्षित किले का भी निर्माण कराया था जिसे ऊपर कोट कहा जाता रहा है इस किले के चारों ओर सुरक्षा के लिए नहर का निर्माण भी था जिसमें इस ऊपर कोट के पास ही बहती हुई काली नदी के जल से इसे भरा जाता था राजा अहिबरन ने इस सुरक्षित परकोटे में अपनी आराध्या कुलदेवी माँ काली के भव्य मंदिर की भी स्थापना की थी। मुगल काल के दौरान इस किले (नगर) पर आधिपत्य के बाद औरंगजेब के प्यादे द्वारा यहाँ जन विध्वंस भी हुआ व भारी संख्या में हिन्दुओं को जबरन मुस्लिम बनाया राजा अहिबरन के वंशज राजा अनूपराय ने भी यहाँ शासन किया जिन्होंने अनूपशहर नामक शहर बसाया उनकी शिकारगाह आज शिकारपुर नगर के रूप में प्रसिद्ध है। मुगल काल के अंत और ब्रिटिश काल के उद्भव समय में जनपद में ही मालागढ़ रियासत, छतारी रियासत व दानपुर रियासत की भी स्थापना हो चुकी थी जिनके अवशेष आज भी जनपद में विद्यमान है। दानपुर रियासत का नबाब जलील खान कट्टर इस्लामिक था और छतारी रियासत ब्रिटिश परस्त रही।

#भूगोल

बुलन्दशहर भारत में उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य के ठीक पश्चिम में स्थित है। पूर्व में गंगा नदी व पश्चिम में यमुना नदी इसकी सीमा बनाती है। बुलन्दशहर के उत्तर में मेरठ तथा दक्षिण में अलीगढ़ ज़िले हैं। पश्चिम में राजस्थान राज्य पड़ता है। इसका क्षेत्रफल 1,887 वर्ग मील है। यहाँ की भूमि उर्वर एवं समतल है। गंगा की नहर से सिंचाई और यातायात दोनों का काम लिया जाता है। निम्न गंगा नहर का प्रधान कार्यालय नरौरा स्थान पर है। वर्षा का वार्षिक औसत 26 इंच रहता है। पूर्व की ओर पश्चिम से अधिक वर्षा होती है।

यातायात और परिवहन

#वायु_मार्ग

सबसे निकटतम हवाई अड्डा इंदिरा गांधी अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा है। बुलन्दशहर से दिल्ली 75 किलोमीटर की दूरी पर स्थित है।

#रेल_मार्ग

भारत के कई प्रमुख शहरों से रेलमार्ग द्वारा बुलन्दशहर पहुँचा जा सकता है। सबसे नजदीकी रेलवे स्टेशन हापुड़ है।

#सड़क_मार्ग

बुलन्दशहर सड़क मार्ग द्वारा भारत के कई प्रमुख शहरों से जुड़ा हुआ है। दिल्ली, आगरा, अलीगढ़ और जयपुर आदि शहरों से सड़कमार्ग द्वारा जुड़ा है।

#उद्धयोग और #व्यापार

दूध के कारोबार में बुलंदशहर देश में अपनी एक नयी पहचान बना रहा है। बुलंदशहर की पारस डेरी मधुसूधन डेरी सेवा डेरी जिले के साथ साथ एन सी आर को भी दूध मुहैया करा रही है। कुछ स्थानों पर राजपूतों तथा गुर्जरो, जाटों के परिश्रम से भूमि कृषि योग्य कर ली गई है। यहाँ की मुख्य उपजें गेहूँ, चना, मक्का, जौ, ज्वार, बाजरा, कपास एव गन्ना आदि हैं। सूत कातने, कपड़े बनाने का काम जहाँगीराबाद में, बरतनों का काम खुर्जा, लकड़ी का काम बुलंदशहर व शिकारपुर में होता है। कांच से चूड़ियाँ, बोतलें आदि भी बनती हैं।

खुर्जा में बनने वाली क्रॉकरी विश्व प्रसिद्ध है। गणतंत्र दिवस पर जिले का नाम बढ़ने वाली क्रॉकरी खुर्जा में ही बनाई जाती है। करघे से कपड़ा बुना जाता है। नगर बुलन्दशहर में पानी के हेंडपम्प बनाने की भी कई ईकाई है। खुर्जा व बुलन्दशहर नगर में कई नामी आयुर्वेदिक चिकित्सक भी रहे है।

#पर्यटन

बुलन्दशहर जनपद पर्यटन की दृष्टि से भी भारतवर्ष में उत्तम स्थान है। जनपद बुलंदशहर महान संतों, वैद्यों व योगियों की जन्म व् कर्म भूमि रहा है। यहाँ पर महाभारतकालीन साक्ष्य भी प्रमाण स्वरूप प्राप्त हुए है। वर्तमान में भी कई उच्च स्थिति संत व योगी यहाँ निवास करते है क्योकिं यह जनपद दो महत्त्वपूर्ण नदियों गंगा व यमुना के मध्य स्थित है और इस कारण से यह पवित्र भूमि है।

#बुलंदशहर

यह जनपद का मुख्यालय नगर है। यहाँ ब्रिटिश कालीन टाउन हॉल है, जिसमें वर्तमान में जिला निर्वाचन कार्यालय है। नगर के मध्य काला आम चौराहे पर पार्क है जिसमें ब्रिटिश काल का विक्टोरिया क्लॉक टावर आज भी है। काला आम चौराहा शहीदों की वीर भूमि है इसका वर्तमान में नामकरण शहीद भगत सिंह के नाम पर शहीद चौक है, यहाँ पर ब्रिटिश अधिकारी क्रांतिकारियों को सरेआम फाँसी पर लटकाते थे, इसी वजह से इसे क़त्ल-ए-आम चौराहा कहते थे जो वर्तमान में अपभ्रन्शित होकर काला आम चौराहा हो गया। नगर में स्वयंभू शिवलिंग मंदिर है जिसका नाम राजराजेश्वर मंदिर है इस मंदिर का निर्माण राजा अनूपराय ने कराया था। नगर में तीन पुरातन मंदिर है भूतेश्वर महादेव, कालेश्वर मंदिर और देवी भवन मंदिर

नगर के चौक बाज़ार में प्राचीन राम मंदिर है और वही मंदिर के सड़क पार स्वयंभू प्रकट है सिद्ध हनुमान जी जहाँ मंगलवार व शनिवार को भक्तों की भारी भीड़ रहती है।

#अनूपशहर-

गंगा तट पर बसा यह शहर छोटी काशी के नाम से भी प्रसिद्ध है, इस शहर को राजा अनूपराय ने बसाया था इसी नगर के अंतर्गत महर्षि भृगु जी की तपस्थली है जिसे भृगु आश्रम के नाम से जानते है। महाकवि सेनापति की यह जन्मभूमि है।

#कर्णवास-

किवदंती है कि यहाँ प्रत्येक दिवस गंगा में स्नान कर के राजा कर्ण सवा मन स्वर्ण दान किया करते थे। यहाँ सिद्ध साधु बंगाली बाबा का भी आश्रम है जहाँ आर्य समाज के संस्थापक स्वामी दयानन्द अपनी भारत यात्रा के दौरान आये थे।

#अहार-

गंगा तट पर ही स्थापित माँ देवी का मंदिर है जहाँ भगवान कृष्ण की पटरानी रुक्मणी जी पूजा के लिए आती थी तथा भगवान कृष्ण व देवी रुक्मणी का प्रथम मिलन यही हुआ था। यही पास में सिद्ध बाबा (श्री महादेव) जी का मंदिर है जिसमें भगवान शिव की स्वयंभू लिंग है श्रावण मास व महाशिवरात्रि में लाखों श्रद्धालु गंगोत्री व ऋषिकेश से कावंड (गंगाजल) लाकर शिवलिंग पर चढाते है।

#बेलौन-

इस स्थान पर सिद्ध शक्ति पीठ है। यहाँ माँ दुर्गा से मनोकामना मांगने पर मनोकामना पूरी होती ही है। यह स्थान डिबाई नगर व नरौरा उपनगर के मध्य स्थित है।

#नरौरा-

यह स्थान परमाणु विद्युत ताप ग्रह के स्थापित होने से प्रसिद्ध है। आजादी के बाद गंगा पर प्रथम बैराज यहीं बना था जिसका उदघाटन भारत के प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री श्री जवाहर लाल नेहरु ने किया था।

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जनपद के खुर्जा नगर के पास आयुर्वेद मेडिकल कॉलिज है जिसकी स्थापना वैद्य गोपाल दत्त शर्मा ने की है।

जनपद में बुलन्दशहर नगर राष्ट्रीय ख्याति प्राप्त आयुर्वेदिक चिकित्सक वैद्य श्री किशोर मोहन शर्मा जन्म-भूमि व कर्म-भूमि रहा है। जिनकी सन्तिति आज भी आयुर्वेद की निष्काम भाव से सेवा कर रही है।

जनपद के गाँव ऊटरावली में जन्मे बाबू बनारसी दास जी उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री भी रहे थे।

भाजपानीत प्रदेश सरकार में माननीय वीरेंद्र सिंह सिरोही केबिनेट राजस्व मंत्री व माननीय महेन्द्र सिंह यादव केबिनेट माध्यमिक शिक्षा मंत्री रहे है

जनपद की पूर्व में रही अगौता विधान सभा क्षेत्र से निर्वाचित माननीय किरनपाल सिंह प्रदेश सरकार में केबिनेट बेसिक शिक्षा मंत्री रहे है।

जनपद में विधानसभा क्षेत्र-

1. #बुलंदशहर

2. #सिकंदराबाद

3. #शिकारपुर

4. #खुर्जा

5. #डिबाई

6. #अनूपशहर 

7. #स्याना

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