HISTORY TODAY: JULY 6, 2023

Today in History
  • Richard III became King of England in 1483.
  • The Indian Botanical Garden was established in 1787 at Shibpur in West Bengal.
  • Louis Pasteur successfully tested a rabies vaccine in 1885.
  • Scottish religious leader and famous explorer David Levingston set foot on this land for the first time in 1859. After which Britain took control of this country.
  • Britain faced invasions from Germany and Portugal here
  • The Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1923.
  • Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose called Mahatma Gandhi the Father of the Nation for the first time in 1944.
  • Open heart surgery was successfully performed for the first time in 1959 at Vellore Hospital.
  • In 1961, an explosion on a Portuguese ship near Mozambique killed 300 people.
  • The Nathula Pass, which was closed due to the Indo-China war, was reopened in 1962.
  • The country of the African continent, Malawi became independent from Britain in 1964 and today is declared as the national day of this country.
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation was established in 1990.
  • Abdul Qadir, the Vice President of Afghanistan, was assassinated in 2002.
  • In 2005, a forty thousand-year-old human footprint was found in Mexico.
  • France defeated Portugal in the 2006 World Cup football.
  • Nathula Pass was opened in 2006 after 44 years after the 1962 Indo-China war. From here there was trade between India and China.
  • In 2008, a 5,000-year-old royal necropolis was discovered in southern Egypt.
  • Jadranka Kosor became the first female Prime Minister of Croatia in 2009.
  • According to the World Investment Report-2012 released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), China remained the most attractive investment destination for multinational companies in the period 2012 to 2014. After that America was followed by India.
  • Gunmen in Pakistan killed 18 people in 2012.
  • In Nigeria, terrorists killed 42 people in a 2013 school attack.
  • In 2014, the Israeli Air Force struck the Gaza Strip, killing seven Hamas members.

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