Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Australia's longest running magazine, The Bulletin, closed down after 128 years of publishing.
Hearings investigating the corporate fraud perpetrated by Enron Corporation, an American energy company, began.
Apple Macintosh, the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface went on sale.
Homi J. Bhabha (b. 1909), Indian nuclear physicist and the father of the Indian nuclear programme, died in a plane crash near Mont Blanc.
After warming them to 100,000,0000C, 2 light atoms were bombarded against each other to create a heavier atom, resulting in the first man-made nuclear fusion.
The ‘showman’ of Hindi Cinema, Subhash Ghai was born in Nagpur. His hit movies include Saudagar, Pardes and Taal.
The Russian city of St Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.
General Robert Baden-Powell established the Boy Scouts.
The Newcastle Badminton Club, the world’s oldest club was formed in England.
The rubber heel for shoes was patented by Humphrey O’Sullivan.
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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.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
K. M Munshi Marg,
Chowpatty, Mumbai - 400 007
email : editor@dimdima.com
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
505, Sane Guruji Marg,
Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034
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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.