Ritika
New Delhi: This second day of the 11th month of the year is recorded in history as the birthday of Shahrukh Khan, considered the Romance King of Bollywood. Born on 2 November 1965 in Delhi, Shah Rukh turned to films after making his mark on television with serials and his first film on the silver screen was “Deewana”.
Apart from playing negative roles in a few films like ‘Darr’, ‘Anzaam’ and ‘Baazigar’, Shah Rukh is mostly known for his love based characters. Be it light-hearted films like ‘Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman’ and ‘Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani’, ‘Duplicate’ or soulful films like ‘Devdas’, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, ‘My Name is Khan’ and ‘Chak De India’, Shah Rukh He breathed life into every character with his best performance.
He also performed the role of crime gangster in films like ‘Raees’ and ‘Don’. Shah Rukh Khan has been one of the most popular and heartfelt actors of Hindi cinema for more than three decades, expressing all kinds of expressions with great ease with his face. The sequence of other important events recorded on the date of November 2 in the history of the country is as follows:-
1833: Birth of Mahendralal Sarkar, a social reformer and promoter of homeopathy.
1834: A ship named Atlas reached Mauritius carrying Indian laborers. This day is celebrated as Aapravasi Day in Mauritius.
1917: Britain issued the Balfour Declaration. Through this it was agreed to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation officially launches its first television channel, the world’s first regular television service.
1949: Holland and Indonesia sign the Hague Agreement to end the dispute over Indonesia’s declaration of independence.
1950: Author George Bernard Shaw died at the age of 94.
1976: Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th President of the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
1963: Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, is assassinated by rebels during a coup.
1965: Birthday of actor Shahrukh Khan.
1986: David Jacobson, a US citizen held hostage by Muslim extremists in Beirut, is released after 17 months.
2020: 25 casualties in gunmen attack on Kabul University.
2020: Priyanka Radhakrishnan becomes New Zealand’s first Indian-origin minister. (agency)
