This week in history

SYEDA SABAHAT · #1 Sunday, December 25, 2011

This week in history

DECEMBER 24

1524: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin, India
1814: The War of 1812, between America and Britain, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent
1863: British writer William Makepeace Thackeray dies
1865: The white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan is formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, US
1924: Indian playback singer Mohammed Rafi is born
1951: Libya gains independence from Italy
1957: President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is born
1959: Indian actor Anil Kapoor is born

DECEMBER 25

1642: English scientist Isaac Newton is born
1876: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is born
1899: American actor Humphrey Bogart is born
1919: Indian music director Naushad Ali is born
1949: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif is born
1977: British film actor/director Charlie Chaplin dies
1990: The first successful trial run of the system which becomes the World Wide Web
1991: President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns following the disintegration of the Soviet Union
1995: American actor/singer Dean Martin is born

DECEMBER 26

1865: James H. Nason receives a patent for a coffee percolator
1933: FM radio is patented
1935: West Indian cricketer Rohan Kanhai is born
1979: Pakistani cricketer Kashif Raza is born
1982: Time magazine’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer
1986: The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air
1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets to formally dissolve the USSR
1994: Pakistani poetess Parveen Shakir dies in a road accident
2005: Australian businessman and cricket administrator Kerry Packer dies
2004: Asian tsunami hits Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India killing 230,000

DECEMBER 27

1796: Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib is born
1939: Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000
1940: English cricket umpire David Shepherd is born
1945: The World Bank is created with an agreement signed by 28 nations
1965: Indian actor Salman Khan is born
1979: The Soviet Union takes control of Afghanistan, installing Afghan politician Babrak Karmal as President
1981: Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee breaks Lance Gibbs record by taking 310th Test wicket
2007: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi

DECEMBER 28

1869: William F. Semple patents the chewing gum
1895: The Lumiere Brothers give the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in Paris
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a
paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as X-rays
1941: Pakistani cricketer Intikhab Alam is born
1954: American actor Denzel Washington is born
1979: American tennis player James Blake is born

DECEMBER 29

1862: The bowling ball is invented in the United States
1891: American inventor Thomas Edison is granted a patent for wireless radio
1930: Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces a vision for the creation of Pakistan
1972: British actor Jude Law is born
1976: Pakistani off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq is bornDECEMBER 30

1906: Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1906: The All India Muslim League is founded in Dhaka, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
1922: The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established through the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine and Transcaucasian Federation
1924: American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies
1975: American golfer Tiger Woods is born
1981: Pakistani cricketer Faisal Iqbal is born
1985: Pakistani President Ziaul Haq lifts Martial Law

DECEMBER 31

695: Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim is born
1879: Thomas Edison gives the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp
1923: The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC
1937: Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is born
1943: English actor Sir Ben Kingsley is born
1958: Australian batsman Geoff Marsh is born
1963: The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia
1976: English fast bowler Matthew Hoggard is born
1999: President of Russia Boris Yeltsin resigns, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President

SOURCE: DAWN YOUNG WORLD

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