HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (Dec-15)

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Dec 15, 2005 :: MERSENNE PRIME :: On this day, the 43rd known Mersenne prime was discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper & Dr. Steven Boone of USA. It is the 2nd largest known prime and has more than nine digits. A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number that is a number. In mathematics, a Mersenne number is a number that is than a power of two,Mn = 2^n - 1. As of August 2007, only 44 Mersenne primes were known. It was discovered by a distributed computing project on the Internet, known as the Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)."

Dec 15, 2005 :: On this day, Latvia amended its constitution to ban equal marriage rights to .

Dec 15, 1993 :: STREET Declaration :: It was a joint declaration issued on this day by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major and Albert Reynolds, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland. It affirmed the right of the people of Northern Ireland to self-determination, and that the province would be transferred to the Republic of Ireland from the United Kingdom if and only if a majority of its population was in favour of such a move.

Dec 15, 1977 :: BAICHUNG BHUTIA :: Born this day, he is considered to be the best known of India.

Dec 15, 1950 :: SARDAR Vallabhbhai PATEL :: Died this day, he was an Indian political leader, of India.

Dec 15, 1933 :: J.R.D. JAMSHEDJI :: On this day, he became the in the Test cricket when he, aged 41 years and 27 days, took field against England at the played in India. The oldest Indian debutante in one day cricket was Farookh Engineer (aged 36 years and 138 days) in July, 1974.

Dec 15, 1933 :: Sattiraju Lakshmi NARAYANA :: born this day and commonly known as Bapu, he was an Indian , designer and film director.

Dec 15, 1911 :: NEW DELHI :: On this day, King George V and Queen Mary laid the foundation stone of new Delhi, which had been decided to become the of India.

Dec 15, 1832 :: GUSTAVE EIFFEL :: Born this day, he was a French (Eiffel tower).