On this day, 07 Apr...
1541 - Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of Jesuits, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, for Goa. They became the first Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
1795 - France adopted by law, the metre as the unit of length and the base of the metric system.
1818 - British Govt imposed ‘ State Prisoners Regulation III - 1818’ for detention and deportation of prisoners and revolutionaries without any trial.
1827 - John Walker, an English pharmacist, recorded his first sale of the friction matches he invented the previous year.
1896 - Inventor Simon Lake was issued a US patent for his ‘Submarine Locomotive’, which he designed with underwater salvage operations in mind.
1923 - The first operation to remove a brain tumour under local anaesthetic was performed.
1934 - Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience.
1948 - World Health Organisation formed by UN.
1976 - Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping.
1997 - Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called ‘Growth Quadrangle’.
2000 - Delhi Police unearth a multi- Crore cricket betting and match fixing racket involving five South African cricketers.
2003 - US troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
Born
1770 - William Wordsworth, poet.
1920 - Ravi Shankar , renowned Sitar player.
1926 - Prem Nazir, star of Malayam cinema.
1942 - Jeetendra, actor.
1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial arts actor.
1962 - Ram Gopal Verma, screenwriter.
RIP
1860 - William Keith Kellogg, founder of the WK Kellogg company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods.
1947 - Henry Ford, who first experimented with internal combustion engine.
You may have known...
Pakistan further complicated the picture by ceding 2,050 sq miles part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir to China in 1963. India has called this Sino-Pak agreement as illegal.
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