Noble Snippets

Pratibha Patil, Former President of India, Lawyer - Rudolf Hell, German Engineer, Inventor - Albert Abraham Michelson, Polish-American Physicist - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Freedom Fighter - Indo-China War Began - S.Balasubramanian, Filmmaker - December 19

Pensioners' Day - Willard Frank Libby, American Physical Chemist - Ludwig Van Beethoven, Music Composer - Joseph Henry, American Scientists - Wright Brothers, Flight Record - William Thomson, Eminent Scientist - India Acquired Goa - First General Election in Brazil - December 17

Vijay Diwas (Victory Day) - Adyar K. Lakshman - Indian Bharatnatyam Dancer & Choreographer - Nirbhaya Incident - Joseph Anandan, Tamil Playwright - Thailand Joined UN - December 16

International Tea Day - Antoine Henri Becquerel, Physicist - Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, Former Deputy Prime Minister of India - Jeev Milkha Singh, Indian Golfer - Walt Disney, Cartoonist - December 15

National Energy Conservation Day - Vijay Amritraj, Indian Tennis Player, Sports Commentator, Actor - Tycho Brahe, Danish Astronomer - Max Planck, German Physicist - Wright Brothers First Flying Attempt - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Explorer - Somasundara Bharathiar, Tamil Scholar - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, Soviet Nuclear Physicist - December 14

International Mountain Day - Subramania Bharathi, Independence Activist, Tamil Writer, Poet, Journalist - Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India - Viswanathan Anand, Indian Chess Grandmaster - Max Born, German Physicist, Nobel Laureate - Charles Fabry, French Physicist - M.S.Subbulakshmi, Carnatic Musician - December 11

Human Rights Day - International Animal Rights Day - Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Rajaji (Chakravarti Rajagopalachari) - Independence Activist, India's Last Governor-General, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Lawyer, Writer - Madan Lal Mehta, Indian Physicist - V.C.Kulandaiswamy, Scholar & Educationist - December 10

Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen, Indian Freedom Activist, Politician, Poet, Former Member of Lok & Rajya Sabha - Clifton Suspension Bridge - America and Britain declared War on Japan - Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Tennis Player - SAARC Formed - Dissolve of Soviet Union - Ku.Ramalingam, Poet - December 8

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, Jurist, Economist, Scholar, Politician - Friedrich Max Muller, German-Born, Philologist, Orientalist - Charles Martin Hall, American Chemist, Inventor of Aluminium - World's First Car Hire Service - Savitri, Actress - December 6

International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development - World Soil Day - J.Jayalalithaa, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Politician, Actress - Electric Vehicle Introduced - Sri Aurobindo, Indian Spiritualist - Kalki Krishnamurthy, Tamil Writer - Walt Disney, Cartoonist - Werner Karl Heisenberg, German Theoretical Physicist - Isro, Test - Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa - December 5

Navy Day - R.Venkataraman, Former President of India, Independence Activist, Lawyer - I.K.Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India, Independence Activist - V.R.Krishna Iyar, Former Judge of Apex Court - Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Physicist - William Sturgeon, Physicist & Inventor - December 4

International Day of Persons with Disabilities - Advocates' Day - Rajendra Prasad, Former President of India, Lawyer, Independence Activist, Politician - Khudiram Bose, Freedom Fighter - Sir Rowland Hill - Teacher - Inventor - Postal & Social Reformer - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn, Swedish Physicist & Nobel laureate - Indo-Pakistan War - December 3

National Pollution Control Day - World Computer Literacy Day - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - George Richards Minot, American Physician & Nobel Laureate - Gerardus Mercator, Geographer, Inventor of world Map - V.A.Shiva Ayyadurai, Indian-American Engineer & Inventor of Email - Parithimar Kalaignar Books, Nationalisation - December 2