Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
The most distant galaxy yet, was located by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated to be 15 billion light years away from Earth).
Gavaskar scored a double century for India for the third time, versus the West Indies.
Ayub Khan was elected President of Pakistan.
Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, was launched by the U.S.S.R.
Over 500 British Lancaster bombers destroyed the city of Nuremberg in Germany in only one hour during the Second World War.
Don Bradman scored 103 runs against England's aggressive bodyline bowling in the second Test.
Famous American sci-fi writer and professor of biochemistry, Isaac Asimov was born.
The first photograph of the Moon was taken by the French lensman Louis Daguerre.
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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.