Today in History
1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
1695 window tax
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
BBC broadcast bigben
695 – Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
1904 birthday Unne Kulsum
Voice and written by Azhar Niaz
