• 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.
• 1638 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled Anne Hutchinson
from its ranks for dissenting from Puritan orthodoxy.
• 1912 – The State of Bihar, India was formed out of the State
of Bengal.
• 1913 – Phan Xích Long (pictured), the self-proclaimed
Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial
rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters
the following day.
• 1963 – Please Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles,
was released.
• 1977 – Death Day of A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (Born.
1904)
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan (1 October 1904 – 22 March 1977), popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist leader and first leader of opposition in India.Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar was born on 1 October 1904 in Peralasseri, Kannur District of Northern Kerala and educated in Tellichery. By the time he became a teacher, India's independence movement was becoming energized by Mahatma Gandhi. Gopalan took part in the Khilafat Movement which prompted a marked change in his outlook, transforming him into a dedicated full-time social and political worker.
• 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
(80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
• World Water Day
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