Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing won the Australian Grand Prix, inaugurating his successful run in the 2011 Formula One season.
The Situ Gintung Dam in Indonesia burst, killing at least 99 people in a flash flood.
Jiang Zemin was appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
574 people died in the worst accident in aviation history. A KLM jumbo jet and a Pan Am 747 collided and exploded in a ball of flames on the runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Yuri Gagarin (b. 1934), the Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to journey into outer space, died in a plane crash.
Suharto became President of Indonesia and held office for 31 years until 1998.
Anchorage, Alaska was struck by the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history killing 125 people and causing great destruction.
Nikita Khrushchev became the Premier of the Soviet Union.
The heavily fortified Japanese island south of Tokyo, Iwo Jima, was captured by American forces after four days of fighting. Around 22,000 Japanese soldiers and 6000 U.S. men were killed
Polythene was discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett.
Abraham Gesner patented kerosene.
English King Charles II signed a Royal Charter presenting Bombay to the East India Company for an annual rent of £10.
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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.