Today in History

1896 - Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen returns from his last Arctic expedition.

1951 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru becomes president of the governing Congress party.

1956 - American rock singer Elvis Presley makes his first television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1976 - Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong dies.

1991 - Tajikistan gains independence from the Soviet Union.

2001 - Afghan opposition commander Ahmad Shah Masood is wounded in northern Afghanistan.

2006 - UAE team takes skeet gold at Asian Shooting Championship in Singapore.

2009 - The Red Line Dubai

Metro is inaugurated.

2012 - Verghese Kurien, the father of India’s milk revolution, dies in Gujarat.