Historical events and facts

 

History and animal quiz:

 

1. Sea Cow: “Dugang” a sea animal looking like fish is known as by this name.

2. Jungle scavenger: is “Hyna”.

3. Black box buck is: “Antelope”.

4. “Father of Internet”: Vint Cerf.

 

5. 10TH March 1876: Alexander Graham bell, the inventor of ‘’Telephone’’, spoke the following sentence casually with his assistant, “Mr. Watson! Come here I want you”.

 

6. Harvesty Moon: Moon seen on and around the date “September-23rd”, is known by that name.

 

7. Ailophobia: is a condition or disease, in which the person has ‘’the fear of cats’’. The world famous emperor ‘’Napoleon Bonaparte’’ (France) was having this peculiar ailment.

 

8. on 23RD September 1848: John Curtis of America introduced commercial chewing gum into the market, for the first time.

 

9. On 29th September: America’s army is formed with 700 persons and on the same day, the members of the U.S. senate assembled officially for the first time.

 

10. First commercial electric tramway: was inaugurated in Black poll (in England).

 

11. on 24th September 622: Prophet Mohammed started His journey (Hijra) from Mecca and completed it after reaching Medina.

 

12. Horrible incident: It was the time of British rule in India. Bahadurshah Jaffer was the last Mughal emperor and occupied the throne on 28th September 1838 in Delhi. He was 62 years old then.

 

At that time there was a revolt against the foreign rule in India by some British Indian soldiers, under his leadership, (it is also called the first war of independence against the Britishers’ rule in India).

 

Any how this war is not successful and the emperor was imprisoned on 14th September 1857. His two sons and one grandson were beheaded in front of him. The emperor was sent to Rangoon(Burma) as a punishment and spent the rest of his life there and also died there itself.

 

Thus the Moghul’s rule in India, established by the Emperor Babar in 1526 AD ended after more than 300 years, tragically in the above manner.

 

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