1 / 81737 | A devastating earthquake reportedly killed 3 lakh people and destroyed half of Calcutta (now Kolkata). (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2 / 81939 | Albert Einstein informed then-US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the possibility of an atomic bomb, during World War 2. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
3 / 81942 | Bollywood great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Image: Reuters)
4 / 81945 | The Chinese civil war began between the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
5 / 81984 | The first spacewalk by US woman Dr Kathryn D Sullivan was performed. (Image: Reuters)
6 / 82019 | The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for brokering the peace deal with Eritrea. (Image: Reuters)
7 / 82019 | Former Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli scored his career-best 254 not out to move past 7,000 Test runs. (Image: Reuters)
8 / 82020 | British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the Eifel Grand Prix to equal Michael Schumacher's record of 91 Formula 1 victories. (Image: Reuters)
