Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
The Xbox, a video game console manufactured by Microsoft, was released in the United States.
The new state of Jharkhand was formed by carving out South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India.
Sania Mirza, India's highest ranked female tennis player, was born in Mumbai.
Baby Fae, the world’s first infant to receive a baboon's heart to replace her congenitally deformed one, died in hospital in California.
Vinoba Bhave (b. 1895), noted Gandhian best known for his Bhoodan movement, died in his ashram in Panaur, Maharashtra.
Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were hanged for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
Empress Dowager Cixi (b. 1835), the last powerful empress of the Qing Dynasty which ruled China, died.
Pedro II, Brazil's second and last emperor, was forced to abdicate the throne following a military coup and a democratic republic was proclaimed.
Isaac Pitman published details of the most widely used system of shorthand, known as ‘Pitman shorthand’.
William Herschel (d. 1822), the astronomer who discovered Uranus, was born.
Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador, arrived in the Incan capital of Cuzco to complete his conquest of Peru.
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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.