1547 Great fire in Moscow
1576 Battle of Haldighati ends with defeat of Maharana Pratap’s forces, which were severely outnumbered by Akbar’s forces.
1788 US Constitution comes into effect
1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaping machine
1903 Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Mazarine Stone”
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
2003 “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is released and the book set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million copies were sold on the first day.
2006 Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
By:Archa Dave
