World Voice Day is celebrated worldwide on April 16 devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice. The aim is to demonstrate the enormous importance of the voice in the daily lives of all people.
1853- The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1912- Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1947- Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1948- The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
2008- Statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in London.
2012- The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:
1885- Ullaskar Dutta was an Indian revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar of Bengal, and was a close associate of Barindra nath Ghosh.
1889- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer.
1896- V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar was a historian, an Indologist and Dravidologist from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
1978- Lara Dutta is an Indian actress, model and the winner of the Miss Universe 2000 pageant.
1993- Siddharth Mahadevan is an Indian film composer who is known for his songs in the film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:
1850- Marie Tussaud was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
1896- Harinath Majumdar was a Bengali journalist, poet and Baul singer. He is the writer of Bijoy Basanta (1859), which is in the list of the first published Bengali novels.
1951- Adwaita Mallabarman was a Bengali Indian writer. He is mostly known for his novel 'Titash Ekti Nadir Naam.
1966- Nandalal Bose was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.
1987- Bikash Roy was an Indian actor and filmmaker who is known for his work in Bengali cinema from the late 1940s until the mid-1980s.
Good morning all. Significance of *14th March*: *Events* that took place on this day: *Pi Day* is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant *π (pi).* Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the month/day format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π. It was *founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw,* an employee of the Exploratorium. 1780- American Revolutionary War: *Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte* in Mobile, Alabama. 1794 - *Eli Whitney* is granted a patent for the *cotton gin* (a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds). 1864- *Sir Samuel White Baker* was an English Explorer, author, and administrator who *explored the Upper Nile and discovered Lake Albert.* 1900- *The Gold Standard Act* is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. 1931- *Alam Ara* was released. It was the first Indian sound film and was directed by Ardeshir Irani. 1939- *Slovakia* declares independe...
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