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30/08/2024

AZERBAIJAN INDEPENDENCE
August 30, 1991 - Transcontinental country REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN declared independence from SOVIET UNION.
Azerbaijan is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region, and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.
Baku, is famed for its medieval walled Inner City. Within the Inner City lies the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, a royal retreat dating to the 15th century, and the centuries-old stone Maiden Tower, which dominates the city skyline

25/12/2023

DEATH ANNIVERSARY
25th December 1977 - British comic actor, filmmaker, and composer, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in motions picture history, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. died in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland (aged 88). He was born on 16 April 1889 in London, England.
Charlie Chaplin rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
His burial place is Cimetière de Corsier-sur-Vevey, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.

25/12/2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
25 December 1876 - Barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai) was born in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan). Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan's first governor-general until his death on 11th September 1948.

24/12/2023

DEATH ANNIVERSARY
December 24, 1914 - Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist John Muir died in Los Angeles, California, United States. He was born on April 21, 1838 in Dunbar, United Kingdom
He was an advocate of U.S. forest conservation, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks" and largely responsible for the establishment of both Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park in California, United States.

24/12/2023

BORN TODAY
Famous Indian playback singer Muhammed Rafi was born on December 24, 1924 in Kotla Sultan Singh, near Amritsar, Punjab (British India). He was a legendary Indian playback singer who recorded more than 25,000 songs in a career spanning almost 40 years. Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice. He was an expert in peppy, patriotic, sad, highly romantic, qawwalis, ghazals, bhajans and classical songs.
Rafi recorded his first song in Lahore (Pakistan) for the Punjabi film “Gul Baloch” (1944). In Bombay (India) Rafi had his first physical role in Laila Majnu (1949).

24/12/2023

"A1" …. FIRST CAR NUMBER PLATE
24 December 1903 – The Motor Car Act, which mandated the registration of motor vehicles, became law. It took effect on 1 January 1904, though the first number plates were issued in late 1903. The “A1” registration plate was issued by London county council on 24 December 1903 to the second Earl Russell, who camped outside the London County Council issuing office overnight to be sure he got it, (he was the brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell). It was the first registration issued by the London County Council, though other authorities started before that date. From surviving records, the first number known to have been issued is Hastings' DY 1 issued on 23 November 1903.
On November 1st 2019, Coventry businessman John McDevitt acquired the registration A1 and it is currently registered to a black Mini.

24/12/2023

AFGHAN – SOVIET WAR 1979
24 December 1979 – The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978, to aid the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. After 9 years, one month, three weeks and one day the war ended on 15 February 1989 after Geneva Accords (1988), Soviet forces withdrawn from Afghanistan.
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside.
They saw the Christian or atheist Soviets controlling Afghanistan as a defilement of Islam as well as of their traditional culture.

24/12/2023

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
December 24, 1951 - North African country LIBYA gained independence from its colonial masters, FRANCE and BRITAIN. Independence came after the U.N. General Assembly decree in 1949 that Libya become independent on or before the first day of 1952. Before independence, Libya had been under various regimes, including the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, Italians, and finally, France and Britain.
A constitution was drawn up and King Idris al-Sanusi (Idris-I), head of the Sanūsiyyah (a Sufi Muslim brotherhood), declared the country independent (United Kingdom of Libya).
Muammar Gaddafi led a coup d’état that ousted the sitting king on September 1, 1969. This led to the establishment of the “Libyan Arab Republic”, and this date was recognized instead of December 24.
However, after the demise of Gaddafi in 2011, Libya Independence Day was reinstated as a national holiday. It commemorates the independence of Libya from its colonial masters.

24/12/2023

EARTHRISE
24th December 1968 - The crew of Apollo 8 entered into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. Astronaut William Anders of the NASA Apollo 8 mission, took the famous photograph known as "Earthrise", showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface.
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, were the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.

23/12/2023

KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
World's first successful kidney transplant operation was carried out by Joseph Edward Murray on 23rd December 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This transplant was on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick. Murray was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work in organ transplantation.
In 1953, the first temporarily successful transplantation of a human kidney was performed by Jean Hamburger in Paris. A 16-year-old boy received the kidney of his mother as living donor transplantation.

23/12/2023

DEATH ANNIVERSARY
23 December 2000 - Noor Jehan (real name: Allah Rakhi Wasai) Famous Pakistani singer and actress.
(Born: 21 September 1926, Kasur - Died: 23 December 2000, Karachi)
Noor Jehan (Allah Wasai), also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Tarannum (the queen of melody), was an all time famous playback singer and actress who worked first in British India and then in the cinema of Pakistan. Her career spanned more than six decades (the 1930s–1990s).

23/12/2023

DEATH ANNIVERSARY
Russian Lieutenant General, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov died on 23rd December 2013 in Izhevsk (Russia). He was born on 10th November 1919 in Kur’ya (Russia).
He is known for designing the AK-47 (automatic Kalashnikov Model 1947), an assault rifle and its improvements, that became one of the most successful and ubiquitous fi****ms of the modern era.

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