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Did you know Cinco de Mayo isn’t Mexico’s Independence Day? It commemorates Mexico’s 1862 victory at Puebla. 🇲🇽 Drop one fun fact you just learned today! #HistoryBytes #CincodeMayo
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1919 में बोस्टन की सड़कों पर गुड़ की लहर ने मचाई तबाही।
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Did you know? 🐔 In 1945, a chicken named Mike lived for 18 months without a head! 🤯
He became a sensation, even touring the U.S. and inspiring thousands! 💪🐓 Talk about being one tough bird!"
#FunFactFriday #BelieveItOrNot #HeadlessChicken #HistoryBytes
@rishibagree In 1974, Sri Lanka got Kachchatheevu Island in exchange for fishing rights. In 1966, India's airstrikes countered rebels in Mizoram. Nehru integrated Goa and Puducherry post-independence. Indira Gandhi's strategy added Sikkim and led to Pakistan's breakup. #HistoryBytes
#HistoryBytes Yasser Arafat, the late head of Palestine always wore his headscarf called the ‘Keffiyeh’ in an unique style such that it resembled the shape of Palestine in the map before the Israel partition era
He wanted just his appearance to remind people of Palestine’s claim
#HistoryBytes Until 16thC, it was widely believed that the deaf were incapable of being educated. A Spanish monk Pedro Leon was the first to develop a sign language to teach letters & words to the deaf through his experience of communicating with other monks who led silent lives!
#HistoryBytes Spanish Explorer Alexio Garcia was the 1st to explore S.America & his team returned with precious metals leading to a legend about a mountain made of silver in S.America
This is the origin behind the name Argentina (Silver is Argentum in Latin) #ArgentinaVsFrance
#HistoryBytes The depiction of Lord Hanuman as Veera Hanuman with a Gadha started with the Vijayanagara empire to inspire bravery in their wars against Deccan sultans & was made prominent in temples & flags
Pre 15th C, he was mainly depicted as Bhakta Hanuman, Rama’s devotee
#HistoryBytes Bombay was first ruled by Portuguese from the island of Mahim. The British fought many times but failed to win it
Finally, they got it as a dowry when King Charles II married Princess Catherine of Portugal in 1661. It was the costliest dowry in the world as of then
#HistoryBytes Carvilius Ruga, a 3rdC BC Roman teacher invented the letter G as a variant of C, by adding a dash, to differentiate the Ka and Ga sounds
He didn’t like people calling his name as Ruca & decided there had to be a separate letter G such that he was called properly!
#HistoryBytes In Imperial China, young girl’s foot were tightly bound to fit into a 3 inch shoe as a popular practice. Called ‘Lotus Shoes’ - these were a symbol of status & feminine beauty.
But binding for years together left many women with permanently disfigured feet!!
#HistoryBytes Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica in 1503 & had issues in getting food from the local tribes. He referred to an almanac & predicted the #LunarEclipse on 1st Mar1504 to the natives & used it to tell that god was angry with them for & scared them into feeding him
#HistoryBytes Originally the Roman Calendar had just 10 months & a ‘winter’ period. Hence the original month were named for 7,8,9,10
‘Septem’ber - 7th month
‘Octo’ber - 8th
‘Novem’ber - 9th
‘Dec’ember - 10th
Later Winter became Jan & Feb but the other names remained unchanged!
#HistoryBytes During the Cultural Revolution led by the communists in China in 1966, Mao ZeDong’s govt made a proposal to change Red in traffic lights mean to Go and Green to stop as they wanted to show the colour Red meant progress!
Luckily, it was canceled as confusion ensued!
Today is the day that the All India Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India.
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सिख गुरु हर गोविंदजी, छठे सिख गुरु, का जन्म हुआ था। उन्होंने सिखों के लिए एक सैन्य भूमिका का निर्माण किया।
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#HistoryBytes- #Zimbabwe
#RhodesiaUDI
Dec 1965, Michael Stewart British Foreign Secretary, in the centre explains need for sanctions against Iaan Smith Rhodesia due to UDI, while USA and Soviet Union representatives. Arthur J Goldburg top and Nikolai Fedorenko bottom listen.
Today was the day in 1961 when USSR conducted their first armed test of submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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...Well, if we can’t find an N-95, we can always revert to the 17th century plague doctor mask. If that doesn’t scare away the coronavirus, at least it’s sure to keep us socially distanced. #HistoryBytes #Coronavirus #COVID19
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