Jhalkaribai, passed away on 4 April 1858, was a woman soldier who played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. She served in the women's army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. She eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen, Rani of Jhansi herself. At the height of the Siege of Jhansi, she disguised herself as the Queen and fought on her behalf, on the front, allowing the Queen to escape safely out of the fort.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016,followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft's best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft ranked No. 14 in the 2022 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue;[2] it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2022. It is considered as one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (formerly Facebook).
On 4 April 1968, US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A Black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, he led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination in the United States.
Tallapaka
Annamacharya (also popularly known as Annamayya)(22 May 1408 – 4 April
1503) was a 15th-century Hindu saint and the earliest known Indian
musician to compose songs called sankirtanas in praise of the Lord
Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu.He is the first known composer in
carnatic music. The most famous composers of Carnatic music like
Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa also came after him. The musical form of the
keertana songs that he composed, which are still popular among Carnatic
music concert artists,have strongly influenced the structure of
Carnatic music compositions.Annamacharya is remembered for his saintly
life, and is honoured as a great devotee of Vishnu by devotees and
saintly singers.
He
is believed to have been the creator avatar of Nandaka, the sword of
Vishnu. He is widely regarded as the Andhra Pada kavitā Pitāmaha
(Grandfather of Telugu song-writing).
Bābā Farīd, born on 4 April 1179, was a 12th-century Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic. who went on to become "one of the most revered and distinguished ... Muslim mystics" of the medieval period.
Sagarmal Gopa, passed away on 4 April 1946, was a freedom fighter and patriot from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. His father Akhairaj gopa was a courtier in Maharawal Jawahar Singh's court. Sagarmal Gopa had recorded the atrocities of Jawahar Singh, the contemporary ruler of Jaisalmer, in his book "Jaisalmer ka Gundaraj", after which the enmity between Jawahar Singh and Sagarmal Gopa increased. He took active part in the Non-cooperation movement in 1921. He opposed anti-people policies of then rulers of Jaisalmer. He was expelled from Jaisalmer and Hyderabad. Even in exile he continued to work for freedom movement. After his father's death in 1941, on his return to Jaisalmer he was arrested on 25 May 1941. Sagermal gopa tortured in prison for years. He was burnt to death in the prison on 4 April 1946. "Gopal Swaroop Pathak commission" was formed to investigate the murder of Sagarmal Gopa, which under the influence of Jawahar Singh, declared this murder as suicide. 3 books were written by gopa
1) aajadi ke diwane
2) jaisalmer ka gundaraj
3) raghunath singh ka mukadma.
Mahavir Jayanti is one of the most significant festivals among the Jain community and is celebrated across the world. In 2023, Mahavir Jayanti will be celebrated on the 4th of April. As per Jain religious scripts, Lord Mahavira took birth on the 13th day on Chaitra month (Hindu calendar) in Bihar, a few kilometres from Patna.
When he was 30, he left his throne and family in search of truth. He lived in exile for 12 years as an ascetic. During this time, he preached non-violence treated all everyone with reverence. He got his name "Mahavira" after showing exceptional skills in controlling the senses, It is widely belied that when Mahavira was 72, he attained enlightenment (Nirvana).
On April 3, 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper stood nervously along a busy midtown Manhattan street, about to make a phone call. It was a call that would change life as we know it: The first cell phone call ever.
The phone Cooper used that day — a prototype — was a bulky, 2-pound monster that looked a bit like a shoe with an antenna sticking out of the top. In the half-a-century since, this technology has changed more about the way we communicate and connect than Cooper could’ve ever imagined.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the premier investigating agency of India.It operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Originally set up to investigate bribery and governmental corruption, in 1965 it received expanded jurisdiction to investigate breaches of central laws enforceable by the Government of India, multi-state organised crime, multi-agency or international cases.The CBI has attracted numerous controversies and criticisms due to various reports of irregular practises, excessive political influence, and a poor conviction rate.CBI is exempted from the provisions of the Right to Information Act.CBI is India's officially designated single point of contact for liaison with the Interpol.
The CBI headquarter is located in CGO Complex, near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and confered the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Gold Medal for Best Investigating Officers of the agency.
