Stallions Ghore Fera Split Mind Art by Partha

January 16-22

Author: dchaudhuri | Posted on: 16th, Jan, 2026

16th January

1938 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Bengali novelist (Devdas), dies at 61
1967 1st black government installed in Bahamas

17th January

1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe, Japan and kills 5,372
2010 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)

18th January

1936 Rudyard Kipling, English author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)

19th January

1903 New bicycle race “Tour de France” announced
1961 1st episode of “Dick Van Dyke Show” is filmed

20th January

1891 David Kalakaua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
1989 Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)

21st January

1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason
1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

22nd January

1816 Lord Byron completes poems “Parisina” and “Siege of Corinth”
1973 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions

What’s new

p/1943190224Paperback and e-book formats. Please click below:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zLrHEAAAQBAJ
Editor’s book:
https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/829905-born-in-heaven
Poems –  Poems of Twilight Years from Kamal Acharyya.

Arts – Partha Ghosh

Q1 – 2026 contributors (School & College)
Tirthankar Das
Jhelum Chatterjee
Deblina Singha Roy

Q3-2025 contributors (School and College)
Arhon Jana
Molay Konar
Anuska Saha
Ayush Roy
Sagnika Sinha

Deep appreciation for many young contributors in all categories.

Quotes

Funniest Quotes about ageing

“Paradoxically, the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”
– *Andy Rooney*

HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING

Day's history

1st July

1873 Former slave Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia enters West Point Military Academy
1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market

2nd July

1566 Nostradamus French astrologist and prophet, dies at 62
1990 Panic in the tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death

3rd July

1872 Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (d. 1919)
2006 Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.

4th July

1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool
1918 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. End of Ottoman Emperor

5th July

1687 Isaac Newton’s great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England.
1981 Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory

6th July

1854 Georg Ohm, German physicist, and mathematician dies at 65
1892 Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain

7th July

1929 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist, and poet (d. 2005)
1981 Sandra Day O’Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

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