Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Riots broke out in Greece in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the country’s debt crisis.
Padma Vibhushan awards were presented to Pranab Mukherjee, Sachin Tendulkar and Asha Bhosle.
Naushad Ali (b. 1919), foremost Bollywood music director who composed memorable songs for movies like Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam and Pakeezah, died.
LinkedIn, the professional social networking site was launched by Reid Hoffman.
NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the second person and the first American to travel into outer space.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen formally took office as president of China.
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. He was suffering from cancer. In 1840, the British and the French cooperated in bringing his remains to Paris where he was re-interred in the Church of the Dome.
Karl Marx, the founder of modern international Communism, was born in Trier in Prussia. He was later to write Das Kapital along with Frederick Engels.
A Jesuit mission arrived at Akbar's court in Lahore.
Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Jamaica and claimed it for Spain.
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.