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Sunday, 14 December 2014

చరిత్రలో ఈ రోజు

డిసెంబరు 15:

1903: రైటు సోదరులు తయారుచేసిన విమానం మొదటిసారి ఎగిరింది.
1933: ప్రముఖ చిత్రకారుడు బాపు జననం. (మ.2014)(చిత్రంలో)
1959: ప్రముఖ స్వాతంత్ర్యోద్యమ నాయకుడు, డా.భోగరాజు పట్టాభి సీతారామయ్య మరణం (జ.1980).
1996: ప్రసిద్ధ తెలుగు సినిమా నటి సూర్యకాంతం మరణం. (జ.1924).

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... that the design of the Olympic Park Observation Tower (pictured)in Beijing was inspired by blades of grass, but has also been likened to a bunch of nails?
... that 7-foot-6-inch (229 cm) Mamadou N'Diaye is the tallest college basketball player in Division I?
... that the 1995 documentary Father, Son, and Holy War was screened by Doordarshan only after an eleven-year court battle ended with a 2006 order by the Supreme Court of India to screen it?
... that in the aftermath of the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896 the Magyarswere forced to migrate westwards in the Pannonian Basin where they established the powerful Kingdom of Hungary?
... that the albums Satellite Kite and Instruments of Mercy earned Beautiful Eulogy a status as one of the most innovative hip-hop acts in Portland, Oregon?
... that Animal Land won Best Children's Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards?

December 15: Kingdom Day in Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten (1954); Zamenhof Day in Esperanto culture

687 – Sergius was elected pope, ending the last disputed sede vacante of the Byzantine Papacy.
1161 – Emperor Hailing of the Jin dynasty was assassinated in a military camp near the Yangtze River front during a campaign against the Southern Song.
1864 – American Civil War: Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.
1939 – The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind(poster pictured), adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name, made its premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.
1961 – Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death after being found guilty on fifteen criminal charges, includingwar crimes and crimes against humanity.

వికీపీడియా లోని కొత్త వ్యాసాల నుండి

... త్రేతాయుగంలో కార్తవీర్యార్జునుడు ప్రతిష్టించినట్లు భావిస్తున్న ఆలయంశ్రీ లక్ష్మీ చెన్నకేశవ స్వామి దేవాలయం అనీ!(చిత్రంలో)
...పల్నాడు ప్రాంతంలో కనిపించే ఒక గొప్పసంస్కృతి ప్రభల సంస్కృతిఅనీ!
...భారతదేశంలోని హైదరాబాద్ లో ఉన్న ఒక ప్రసిద్ధమైన ఏకశిలా విగ్రహంబుద్ధ విగ్రహం అనీ!
...నూటొక్క సొరంగాలు కలిగి రహస్యాలకు కేంద్రబిందువైన బిలం గుత్తికొండ బిళం అనీ!
... బోయి భీమన్న తన పద్దెనిమిదేండ్ల వయసులో రస దృష్టితో కంటే సంఘప్రయోజన దృష్టితో వ్రాసిన నాటకము రాగవాసిష్ఠం అనీ!

చరిత్రలో ఈ రోజు

డిసెంబరు 14:

భారత జాతీయ ఇంధన పరిరక్షణ దినోత్సవం
1998: ఆలమట్టి ఆనకట్ట ఎత్తును 509 మీ. కంటె పెంచరాదని, కర్ణాటక స్వంత పూచీకత్తుపై 26 క్రెస్టు గేట్లను అమర్చుకోవచ్చని, సుప్రీం కోర్టు తీర్పు చెప్పింది.

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... that Edward Middleton Manigault was possibly inspired byfireworks on the Hudson River (pictured)?
... that Mexico never paid China the $3 million indemnity it agreed to after the deaths of 300 Chinese immigrants in the 1911Torreón massacre?
... that the Bhushi Dam was built to supply water to steam engines of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway?
... that Bucko by Erika Moen and Jeff Parker was published as a webcomic before being published as a physical graphic novel?
... that between 1875 and 1899, the architecture firm Habershon and Fawcknerdesigned and laid out Cardiff's working class suburb of Splott, creating more than 1,700 houses?
... that most of the Stony Creek watershed is forested, but nearly a third is barren land?
... that in 1809 the French frigate Junon was captured by the British, then recaptured by the French and set on fire?

December 14: Day of the Martyred Intellectuals in Bangladesh (1971); Monkey Day

557 – A large earthquake severely damaged the city of Constantinople.
1836 – The Toledo War, the mostly bloodlessboundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoiningTerritory of Michigan, unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, was launched, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1994 – Construction on the Three Gorges Dam (pictured) began on the Yangtze River in China.
2004 – Cuba and Venezuela founded the Alliance for the Americas, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the integration of Latin American and Caribbean nations.