Businessmen Gautam Adani

Events in 1962 and 24-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Gautam Adani

• France transfers sovereignty to new republic of Algeria (July 3).
• Cuban Missile Crisis: USSR to build missile bases in Cuba; Kennedy orders Cuban blockade, lifts blockade after Russia backs down (Aug.-Nov.).
• Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council (Oct. 11).
• Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of 1961 invasion attempt (Dec. 24).
• Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent.

Birthday Gautam Adani (24-6) in history

• Day 24-6 year 1509: Henry VIII is officially crowned king of England.
• Day 24-6 year 1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent requested a seat and vote in the Maryland Congress but was removed from that body.
• Day 24-6 year 1675: The day of the deadliest war commanded by King Philip between the colonists and the Indians began with the Indians attacking the settlement of Swansea (Mass).
• Day 24-6 year 1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
• Day 24-6 year 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
• Day 24-6 year 1948: The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
• Day 24-6 year 1997: The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
• Day 24-6 year 2011: New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
• Day 24-6 year 2012: Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.