Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
An English doctor and physicist who carried out many experiments to prove that light travels as waves.
A Scottish scientist first to realize that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
A Scottish scientist first to realize that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
A Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher.
Irish dramatist and poet, who won the Nobel Prize in 1923.
The Boxer Uprising by supporters of the Society of Harmonious Fists begins in China, in opposition to the growth of European influence there.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court holds that police must inform criminal suspects of their legal rights before arresting and questioning them.
The New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, an internal government report on the Vietnam War that had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department official.
The first beauty contest is held in the Soviet Union.
A Vassar College professor recants his 1995 "discovery" of a new poem by William Shakespeare after the poem, titled "A Funeral Elegy," was included in three major editions of Shakespeare's works.

An Irish dramatist and poet, who won the Nobel Prize in 1923, was born on 13th June 1865, in Dublin. He wrote poems include; The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wanderings of Oisin and The Celtic Twilight. While visiting to Ireland he influenced by Maud Gonne, the beautiful Irish patriot. She inspired much of his early work and drew him into the Irish nationalist movement for independence. His other works include; The Tower, A Full Moon in March, The Wild Swans at Coole The Winding Stair and Last Poems and Two Plays.
He died on January 28, 1939, in France and was buried in Sligo, Ireland.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal