Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Why is Nov 20th unmatched?

§ Official Flag Day in UK as Queen Elizabeth II married Lt Philip Mountbattenin in 1947

§ Universal Children's Day according to UNICEF

§ Anniversary of the Mexico Revolution (1910)

§ Teacher's Day in Vietnam

§ Maximinus - Great Roman Emperor born in 270 AD

§ Tipu Sultan - also known as The Tiger of Mysore, born in 1750

§ Queen Alexandra of United Kingdom left for her heavenly abode in 1925

§ Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released in 1985

§ SETI - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence started in 1984

§ World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers, in 1940

§ Ukraine was declared Republic in 1917


And above all... I was born on this day in 1984

5 comments:

Vee said...

SETI ppl ideally shud hav scrapped their project on the very 1st day itself. the extra terrestial animal was born on the same day right?? :P

Satish said...

No Dude, they would be more than happy. It started on the auspicious day when I was born. I guess...it is going at great guns now.

Anonymous said...

guess when the bhopal gas tragedy happened.

Anonymous said...

go to wikipedia and search for November 1984. :)

Satish said...

Bhopal Tragedy was in Dec 1984 rite. Nothing wrong could happen on 20th Nov. :)