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October 2 is the 275th day of the year ... killing all 70 people on board. ... English-born American general (b. 1732) [203]
Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is a national holiday in India, Gandhi Jayanti. His image also appears on paper currency of all denominations issued by Reserve Bank of India, except for the one rupee note. [361] Gandhi's date of death, 30 January, is commemorated as a Martyrs' Day in India. [362] There are three temples in India dedicated to ...
Gandhi Jayanti is a national holiday in India, celebrated annually on 2 October to honour the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the key leaders of the Indian independence movement and a pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence. It is one of the three national holidays in India. In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared ...
October 7: 1885 – Birth of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) 1896 – Death of Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808) 1903 – Death of Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) 1939 – Birth of Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. It was established on 15 June 2007 according to United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271. The day is an occasion to "disseminate the message of non-violence...through education and public awareness...and reaffirm the desire for a culture ...
Caroline M. Sawyer – poet, biographer, editor. Daniel Scott – author, Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount (Braintree) Horace Scudder – man of letters, editor. Dr. Seuss – born Theodor Seuss Geisel, author, poet and illustrator (Springfield) Anne Sexton – poet (Newton) Mark Shasha – author.
Bud Abell – linebacker in the American Football League; born in Kansas City [1] Oleta Adams – singer; Amy Alcott (born 1956) – Hall of Fame professional golfer; born in Kansas City [2] M.A. Alford – multimedia artist; Henry Wilson Allen – Western author and screenwriter; Robert Altman – film director [3]
Launched. 1996; 28 years ago (1996) (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [2][3]