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HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (May-05)

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May 5, 2006 :: Died this day, Naushad Ali was an Indian (b. 1919).

May 5, 1992 :: On this day, the world's first suburban train service was introduced on suburban section of the western railway in .

May 5, 1964 :: Born this day, Nellie Bly was journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for her record-breaking trip (in 72 days), which she began on 14th November, 1889.

May 5, 1959 :: Born this day, Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878).

May 5, 1925 :: On this day, was declared the official language of South Africa.

May 5, 1921 :: Born this day, Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999).

May 5, 1921 :: Died this day, Alfred Hermann Fried was an writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864).

May 5, 1916 :: Former (seventh) President of India, , was born this day.

May 5, 1877 :: Died this day, Ludwig Erhard was a German politician and from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897).

May 5, 1861 :: Born this day, Peter Cooper Hewitt was an American electrical engineer and inventor of the Lamp.

May 5, 1846 :: Born this day, Henryk Sienkiewicz was the author, a Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916).

May 5, 1826 :: Empress Eugenie of France, wife of III, was born this day.

May 5, 1821 :: Napoleon was the French leader famed for his military successes. He died on this day on the island of St. Helena.

May 5, 1818 :: Born this day, was a German philosopher and the founder of theory and philosophy of communism.

May 5, 1479 :: Born this day, Guru Amar Das (5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574) was the of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and was given the title of Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552.