"""I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds."" This quote from the Hindu treatise Bhagavad Gita was famously used at what 1945 event?"
"referred to as yet undiscovered elements with the use of Sanskrit numerical prefixes (see Mendeleev's predicted elements). J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1933 met the Indologist Arthur W. Ryder at Berkeley and learned Sanskrit. He read the Bhagavad Gita in the original language. Later he cited it as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life, and his quotation from the Bhagavad Gita ""Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."" in reference to the Trinity test is well known. The nineteenth century was a golden age of Western Sanskrit scholarship, and many of the giants"
"from one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets. According to the historian Gregg Herken, this naming could have been an allusion to Jean Tatlock, who had committed suicide a few months previously and had in the 1930s introduced Oppenheimer to Donne's work. Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the ""Bhagavad Gita"" (XI,12): Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his head at that time: namely, the famous verse: """" (XI,32), which he translated as ""I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."" In 1965, he was persuaded to quote"
"remarked that it brought to mind words from the ""Bhagavad Gita"": ""Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."" After the war ended, Oppenheimer became chairman of the influential General Advisory Committee of the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission. He used that position to lobby for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. After provoking the ire of many politicians with his outspoken opinions during the Second Red Scare, he suffered the revocation of his security clearance in a much-publicized hearing in 1954, and was effectively"
"Quit India speech The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement, best described by his call to ""Do or Die"". His speech was issued at the Gowalia Tank Maidan park in Bombay (now Mumbai), since renamed ""August Kranti Maidan"" (August Revolution Ground). However, almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the"
"""terrifying, worldwide, seven-year phenomenon"" of the west Pacific El Niño climate pattern the singer saw on ""weather channels"" in 1998. Rhys has said that he views ""The Turning Tide"" as more serious than the other tracks on ""Guerrilla"". The song's lyrics are about living in a time of change and embracing change. Although ""Do or Die"" has ""really daft lyrics"" its title was taken from the Quit India speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank in Bombay in which Gandhi called for his countrymen to ""Do or Die"" and use non-violent resistance to end"
"British Division in the cemetery has become world-famous as the Kohima Epitaph. It reads: The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875–1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Spartans who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Battle of Kohima The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of the Japanese U Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War. The battle was fought in three stages from 4 April to 22 June 1944 around the town of Kohima in Nagaland in northeast India."
"Tokyo by B-29 bombers that killed 100,000 people in one night in March 1945, Schreiber noted that: After the war, Schreiber remained at Los Alamos, where he became a group leader in the Weapon (W) Division. His first assignment was to ready bombs for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. During the preparations, he witnessed the accident in which Louis Slotin was exposed to a fatal dose of neutron radiation when a screwdriver Slotin was using during a criticality experiment with one of the plutonium pits for Operation Crossroads slipped and the core went critical."
"Nagarkot massacre The Nagarkot massacre was an act of mass murder that occurred on December 14, 2005 at the Kali Devi temple in Chihandanda near Nagarkot, Nepal. Off-duty RNA sergeant Basudev Thapa (वासुदेव थापा), 26, indiscriminately shot at villagers, celebrating at the temple, with an assault rifle, killing 11 and injuring 19 more, before he himself was shot by his fellow soldiers. The shooting was said to be sparked by an argument between Thapa and some of the villagers. While nearly 250 villagers were celebrating Mangsir Purnima at the Kali Devi temple in Chihandanda an argument broke out between Sergeant"
"early nuclear reactors and in the electromagnetic and gaseous diffusion enrichment processes for the production of uranium-235, the United States was able to develop three usable weapons by mid-1945. The Trinity test was a plutonium implosion-design weapon tested on 16 July 1945, with around a 20 kiloton yield. Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the Hindu holy book, the ""Bhagavad Gita"" (XI,12): Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his head at that time: Faced with a planned invasion of the Japanese home islands scheduled to begin on"
"greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest of the war in jail. Gandhi made this speech to help India gain Independence. Quit India speech The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement, best described by his call to ""Do or Die"". His speech was issued at the Gowalia Tank Maidan park in Bombay (now Mumbai), since renamed ""August Kranti Maidan"" (August Revolution Ground). However,"
"qualities of ""efficient America"" and ""spiritual India."" According to an eyewitness – Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of the Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955–2010 — as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem ""My India"", concluding with the words ""Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God—I am hallowed; my body touched that sod."" ""As he uttered these words, he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center (the Ajna Chakra), and his body slumped to the floor."" Followers say that he entered mahasamadhi. The official cause of death was heart failure. His funeral"
"by Col. Paul Tibbets. It is the first use of atomic weapons in combat. (Atomic bombing of Hiroshima) August 8, 1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan against the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. August 9, 1945 Second, and more powerful plutonium implosion atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped on Nagasaki from a different ""Silverplate"" B-29 named ""Bockscar"", flown by Maj. Charles Sweeney (Atomic bombing of Nagasaki) August 9, 1945 Soviet Armies launch the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. August 10, 1945 The 38th Parallel is set as the delineation between the Soviet and US occupation zones in Korea. August 14, 1945"
"Indian civilians on the orders of a senior British military officer, Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, took place on 13 April 1919 in the heart of Amritsar, the holiest city of the Sikhs, on a day sacred to them as the birth anniversary of the Khalsa (Vaisakhi day). In the Punjab, during World War I (1914–18), there was considerable unrest particularly among the Sikhs, first on account of the demolition of a boundary wall of Gurdwara Rakab Ganj at New Delhi and later because of the activities and trials of the Ghadarites, almost all of whom were Sikhs. In India as"
"Detroit. Rambhadracharya was one of the spiritual and religious Gurus from India at the Millennium World Peace Summit, organised by the United Nations in New York City from 28 to 31 August 2000. While addressing the gathering, he gave Sanskrit definitions for the words ""Bharata"" (the ancient name of India) and ""Hindu"", and touched upon the Nirguna and Saguna aspects of God. In his speech on Peace, he called for developed and developing nations to come together to strive for the eradication of poverty, the fight against terrorism, and nuclear disarmament. At the end of his speech, he recited the"
"The light has gone out of our lives The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948 following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the great speeches in history. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a Hindu fundamentalist and former member of the Hindu Mahasabha, at Birla House, Delhi on 30 January 1948 while Gandhi was heading for a prayer meeting. At 6.00 PM that evening, the Government announced"
"eye to any action they unleashed in the city."" That very evening, in Calcutta, Hindus were attacked by returning Muslim celebrants, who carried pamphlets distributed earlier which showed a clear connection between violence and the demand for Pakistan, and directly implicated the celebration of Direct Action Day with the outbreak of the cycle of violence that would later be called the ""Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946"". The next day, Hindus struck back and the violence continued for three days in which approximately 4,000 people died (according to official accounts), Hindus and Muslims in equal numbers. Although India had had"
"is referring to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For the worldwide distribution, the title ""The Day The Sun Fell"" is used. On 6 August 1945, some 70,000–80,000 people, or around 30% of the population of Hiroshima, were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm, and another 70,000 injured. According to the ""Hiroshima A-bomb Medical Care History"", at the time of the atomic bombing there were 298 doctors of medicine in Hiroshima, but 60 of them were killed immediately, and 210 wounded. The thousands of wounded and dying people were then doctored by a very small group of medical personnel, among"
"speech figures in Amitava Kumar's novel ""Nobody Does the Right Thing"". The light has gone out of our lives The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948 following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the great speeches in history. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a Hindu fundamentalist and former member of the Hindu Mahasabha, at Birla House, Delhi on 30 January 1948 while Gandhi was heading for"
"Shigeaki Mori Mori was a young boy in Hiroshima during World War II. When the city was destroyed with an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, he was walking on a bridge and was thrown into a river. He saw a large number of badly wounded people that he was unable to help. An atomic bomb survivor, Mori has spent over 30 years researching and obtaining official recognition for United States aviators who were killed while being held as POWs in the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters, approximately 400m from the explosion's hypocenter in Hiroshima. He authored a book on the"
"3 July 1944. The region of Bengal in India suffered a devastating famine during 1940–43. In January 1946, a number of mutinies broke out in the armed services, starting with that of RAF servicemen frustrated with their slow repatriation to Britain. The mutinies came to a head with mutiny of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay in February 1946, followed by others in Calcutta, Madras, and Karachi. The mutinies were rapidly suppressed. Also in early 1946, new elections were called and Congress candidates won in eight of the eleven provinces. Late in 1946, the Labour government decided to end British"
"Tsutomu Yamaguchi Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day, and despite his wounds, he returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, whilst being berated by his supervisor as ""crazy"" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. In 1957, he was recognized as a hibakusha (""explosion-affected person"") of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until March 24, 2009,"
"On 23 November 1945, a mass was celebrated, in front of the ruins of the cathedral, for the victims of the bomb. Takashi gave a speech filled with faith, comparing the victims to a sacred offering to obtain peace. In the following years, Nagai resumed teaching and began to write books. The first of these, ""The Bells of Nagasaki"", was completed by the first anniversary of the bombing. Although he failed to find a publisher at first, eventually it became a best seller and the basis for a top box-office movie in Japan. In July 1946, he collapsed on a"
"resulting in the deaths of more than 150 people. The ""Brahmin"" community in Maharashtra region bore the brunt of the riots with the looting and burning of ""Brahmin"" houses and businesses. The riots led to the internal migration of more than 5000 ""Brahmins"" from the villages to the cities and cut off that community from its rural roots. A prior, unsuccessful attempt, to assassinate Gandhi occurred on 25June 1934 at Pune. Gandhi was in Pune along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi, to deliver a speech at Corporation Auditorium. They were travelling in a motorcade of two cars. The car in"
"Direct Action Day Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, was a day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. The day also marked the start of what is known as ""The Week of the Long Knives"". The 'Direct Action' was announced by the Muslim League Council to show the strength of Muslim feelings towards its demand for an ""autonomous and sovereign"" Pakistan. The Action resulted in the worst communal riots that British India had seen. The"
"of a song by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, which invoked a mother goddess, who stood variously for Bengal, India, and the Hindu goddess Kali. The unrest spread from Calcutta to the surrounding regions of Bengal when Calcutta's English-educated students returned home to their villages and towns. The religious stirrings of the slogan and the political outrage over the partition were combined as young men, in groups such as Jugantar, took to bombing public buildings, staging armed robberies, and assassinating British officials. Since Calcutta was the imperial capital, both the outrage and the slogan soon became nationally known. The overwhelming, but predominantly"
"Sitakunda massacre Sitakunda massacre () refers to the massacre of Hindu pilgrims on 15 February 1950. The Hindu pilgrims from all over East Bengal, Tripura and Assam were on their way to Sitakunda on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri at the Chandranath temple. The pilgrims were attacked by the Ansars and armed Muslim mobs and massacred at the Sitakunda railway station. Sitakunda is a small town, 37 km to the north of Chittagong on the Chittagong-Laksham rail route. The town derives its name from the holy site, where Sita used to take her bath during her stay in the region"
"1945. By September 1945, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (Italy and Japan) had all been defeated, chiefly by the forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain. Much of Europe lay in ruins, over 60 million people worldwide had been killed (most of them civilians), including approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews in what became known as the Holocaust. World War II resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructure and led directly to its partition, considerable loss of territory (especially in the East), and historical legacy of guilt and shame. As"
"1944 Bombay explosion The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on April 14, 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay (now Mumbai) when the freighter SS ""Fort Stikine"", carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold, and ammunition including around 1,400 tons of explosives, caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area, killing around 800 to 1,300 people. Some 80,000 people were made homeless and seventy-one firemen lost their lives in the aftermath. The was a 7,142 gross register ton freighter built in 1942 in Prince Rupert,"
"Gowalia Tank Gowalia Tank Maidan (now also known as August Kranti Maidan) is a park in central Mumbai where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942 decreeing that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place. Gandhi's call for the nation was of ""Do or Die"". The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as the British refused to grant independence till the World War II (1939 to 1945) was over. The closest suburban railway station on the Western Railway line is Grant Road. The Gowalia Tank was"
"surrender. April 5, 1945 Soviet Union denounces the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact that had been signed on April 13, 1941. April 29, 1945 Italian Fascist Republican troops, under Rodolfo Graziani’s command, surrender in the ""Rendition of Cazerta"". May 8, 1945 Germany surrenders. July 16, 1945 Potsdam Conference begins. July 26, 1945 Potsdam Declaration issued, calling for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces. August 3, 1945 Soviet General Vasilevskii reported to Stalin that Soviet forces ready for invasion from August 7. August 6, 1945 An atomic bomb, Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima from a special B-29 Superfortress named ""Enola Gay"", flown"
"Utah prisoner of war massacre The Utah prisoner of war massacre (headlined by ""Time"" as Midnight Massacre) was a massacre that took place after the end of World War II in Europe at midnight on July 8, 1945 at a German and Italian prisoner-of-war camp in Salina, Utah. Nine German prisoners of war were murdered and nineteen prisoners were wounded by American private Clarence V. Bertucci, who was on active duty in the camp. After a night out, Bertucci returned to camp around midnight to assume his night duty at the guard tower. Bertucci subsequently loaded the .30-caliber M1917 Browning"
"historic prayer meeting at Bombay on August 8, 1942 where the Quit India resolution was passed. That meeting changed his life. And Modi, the gifted ophthalmologist, dedicated his life to the sightless.""I felt affected when I saw blind people begging. They just did not have money to go to doctors."" Modi recalled."".It is also claimed that he heard the life-changing Gandhi's speech at Beelagi, a village near Bijapur, in 1942. He was the pioneer of mass eye surgery in India. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Modi as the ""most dedicated doctor,"" for performing the highest number of eye"
"approximately 08:15 (JST) 6 August 1945. After falling for 44.4 seconds, the time and barometric triggers started the firing mechanism. The detonation happened at an altitude of . It was less powerful than the Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, but the damage and the number of victims at Hiroshima were much higher, as Hiroshima was on flat terrain, while the hypocenter of Nagasaki lay in a small valley. According to figures published in 1945, 66,000 people were killed as a direct result of the Hiroshima blast, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees. Of those deaths, 20,000 were"