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The ‘Statue of Liberty’, standing on Liberty Island, New York, was inaugurated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. It is a symbol of friendship between America and France. This statue was made in July 1884 in France. To be brought from France to America, it was broken into 350 pieces and packed in 214 boxes.
It took 4 months for the statue to reach New York from Paris. The crown of the statue has 7 rays, which symbolize the 7 continents and 7 oceans of the world. During repairs in 1986, the new torch was encased in a thin sheet of 24-carat gold. In the left hand of the statue is a notebook or tablet, on which is written JULY IV MDCCLXXVI, which shows the date of independence of America on July 4, 1776. In 1984, UNESCO made it a Global Heritage Site.
Today is the birthday of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal computer software company. Bill Gates full name is William Henry Gates. Gates, who wrote the first software program at the age of 13, was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle. While in high school, he helped a group of programmers build the school’s payroll system and created Traf-O-Data, which sold traffic-counting systems to local governments.
While studying at Harvard University, Paul G. A friend like Alan was found and he laid the foundation of Microsoft. MS-DOS was created for International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and the company became a hit. By the early 1990s, Microsoft had become the ultimate kingmaker in the PC industry.
In 1986, Gates joined the list of billionaires. Became the richest person in the world in 1995 and remained so for many years. For the past three years, Gates and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have been competing for the world’s richest person. At present, Bezos is number one and Gates is at number two in the list of Forbes.
For many years he was also the richest person in the world. When popularity grew, he also faced antitrust lawsuits. In June 2008, Gates separated himself from the day-to-day operations of Microsoft so that he could devote more time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In February 2014, he also relinquished the post of chairman.
Today in history is also remembered for these events:
- 1492: Christopher Columbus discovered the east coast of Cuba, after which Spanish forces arrived in the area.
- 1627: Akbar’s son Jahangir died.
- 1851: The British Indian Association was established in Bengal.
- 1863: The International Red Cross Committee was formed under the conference in Geneva.
- 1867: Sister Nivedita, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was born in Ireland.
- 1891: The earthquake of 1891 in Japan killed 7300 people.
- 1913: Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha was founded.
- 1914: The birth of Jonas Salk, an American physician and medical researcher who created the first safe vaccine for polio.
- 1918: Czechoslovakia became independent after the separation of Austria and Hungary.
- 1922: Through the Rome March in Italy, the fascist powers took power and Mussolani became the Prime Minister.
- 1929: Wall Street collapses in the US stock market. The market fell by 24%. It has been called the biggest fall in American history.
- 1967: American actress Julia Roberts was born. Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actress in the 1990s.
- 1971: Great Britain launches its first Earth satellite, Prospero.
- 2004: 4000-year-old tombs unearthed in Beijing.
- 2005: Czechoslovakia declares its independence.
- 2007: Argentina elected Cristina Fernández de Krichner as the country’s first female president.
- 2009: 117 killed, 213 injured in a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2017: The Parliament of Catalonia in Spain votes in favor of declaring an independent territory.
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