A Tuesday with no major fixed observance of its own, sitting in the run-up to the big festive retail window — Myntra, Flipkart, Amazon and Ajio's biggest sale events of the year all open within the next few days.
On this day
- 1908Austria-Hungary formally announced its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a move that outraged Serbia and Russia and triggered the Bosnian Crisis of 1908-09.
1927The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premiered in New York. Remembered as the first feature-length 'talkie', it actually contains only a few minutes of synchronised spoken dialogue amid mostly silent-film intertitles.Warner Bros. Pictures via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1893IndiaAstrophysicist Meghnad Saha was born in Dhaka, then part of British India. His Saha ionization equation, published in 1920, became the basis for determining the temperature and composition of stars from their spectra.Unknown authorUnknown author via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Did you know
The Moulin Rouge in Paris, which opened on this date in 1889, took its name from the red-painted windmill fixed to its roof — a nod to Montmartre's past as a hill once dotted with working windmills.