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TODAY - Nov 28, 2025

Thought of the Day

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Today's Birthday

William Blake
William Blake Poet, English(1757)

An English poet, engraver and printmaker.

 
Luke Howard
Luke Howard Chemist, British(1772)

A British keen amateur meteorologist with a broad interest in science but a chemist by profession.

 
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Berry Gordy, Jr. Lyricist, American(1929)

An American songwriter and record producer who founded Tamla Motown, the first all- black record company, in Detroit, Michigan.

 
Randy Newman
Randy Newman Singer, American(1943)

An American singer and songwriter whose hits include "Short People" and "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today".

 
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels Economist , German(1820)

A German economist and cofounder of scientific socialism with Karl Marx, now known as communism.

This day in History

1520

Portuguese-born Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.

1895

The first American automobile race takes place in Chicago.

1919

American-born Nancy Astor is the first woman in British history elected to a seat in Parliament.

1929

American explorer Richard Byrd begins his flight over the South Pole.

1943

The first conference between the leaders of the three major Allied powers Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin begins in Teheran, Iran.

Man who made the difference

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Friedrich Engels

A German economist and cofounder of scientific socialism with Karl Marx, now known as communism, was born on November 28, 1820, in Wuppertal, Germany. Heinrich Heine a radical German poet and George Friedrich Hegel the German philosopher's works influenced him a lot in his early times and he began writing on philosophical and literary topics in 1839. Engels was converted to Communist beliefs in 1842 by Moses Hess the German Socialist. In the same year he met Karl Marx. In 1848, a Communist Manifesto which is regarded as a classic exposition of modern and influenced all literature of Communist is appeared which was drafted by him. Engels include the following major works: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science (known popularly as Anti-Duhring 1878; trans. 1934), several chapters of which, published separately under the title Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1892), have become one of the best-known basic expositions of socialism; Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884; trans. 1902); and Dialectics of Nature, written between 1872 and 1882 and published posthumously (1925; trans. 1940).

He died on August 5, 1895, London, United Kingdom.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal