Category: World
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July 10 in history: Vellore Mutiny against East India Company
1040: Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes. 1212: London fire burns most of the city. 1800: The British set up Fort William College in Calcutta to promote Urdu, Hindi and other languages. 1806: The Vellore Mutiny when Indian sepoys rose against the…
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July 9 in history
1401: Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1850: American President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk. 1746: First French landing in India at Pondicherry. 1875: The Bombay Stock Exchange established, with its construction under the shade of a large banyan tree. 1893: Daniel Williams performs first successful open heart…
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Che Guevara would have turned 90
Che Guevara, one of the greatest revolutionaries of the world, was born on this day – June 14 – in Argentina in 1928. He would have been 90 today. This picture of the physician-turned-Marxist revolutionary is one of the most iconic images in the world, along with that of the `Mona Lisa’ and Marilyn Monroe…
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Sea levels would rise by 58 metres if all ice on Antarctica melts
Antarctica ice holds about 60 per cent of all fresh water on earth and it has lost 272 trillion tonnes (of ice) since 1992 The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: A new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday says that about 219 billion tonnes of Antarctica ice is melting into the ocean each year, raising…