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May 2020

Mar 24, 2022

Former Chief Justice of India R. C. Lahoti Passes Away

Former Chief Justice of India Ramesh Chandra Lahoti died. He was 81 years old.
Justice Lahoti was appointed as the 35th Chief Justice of India on June 1, 2004. He retired on November 1, 2005.
Hhe joined the Bar in Guna district in 1960 and enrolled as an advocate in 1962.
He was recruited directly to the bench in April 1977, from the Bar to the State Higher Judicial Service and was appointed as a district and sessions judge.

Mar 22, 2022

Mali's Former Prime Minister Passes Away

Mali`s former Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, arrested over corruption allegations last year, died of an undisclosed illness in hospital. Maiga was detained in August 2021 over his suspected role in the purchase of a presidential plane during the rule of ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, ousted in a military coup a year earlier.
Maiga, a former Defence Minister, was named Prime Minister in 2017 and resigned two years later, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the West African nation.

Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the Animated GIF, Dies

Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) format in the 1980s, died due to Covid-19 related issues. According to his obituary note, Wilhite is survived by his wife, four stepchildren, a son, 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The internet has argued how to pronounce GIF over the years. When he received the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013, he put an end to the argument. It's pronounced "jif", he communicated using a GIF.

Mar 21, 2022

American Astrophysicist Eugene Parker Passes Away

American Astrophysicist Eugene Newman Parker, who contributed to solar physics, passed away at the age of 94. Eugene Parker witnessed the launch of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Parker Solar Probe in 2018, the first NASA mission named after a living person, and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft named after them.
Parker is a visionary in the field of heliophysics, which focuses on the study of the sun and other stars & he is well known for his theory on the existence of solar wind, a supersonic flow of particles of the sun's surface. He virtually created the field of heliophysics in the 1950s.

Mar 19, 2022

Poland's Karolina Bielawska Wins Miss World 2021 Crown

Karolina Bielawska from Poland won the 70th edition of the Miss World pageant that took place in Puerto Rico. She was crowned Miss World 2021. The coronation took place at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Shree Saini from the United States became the first runner-up while the second runner-up is Olivia Yace from Côte d'Ivoire.

Mar 18, 2022

Wrestling Fans Shattered as WWE Legend Scott Hall Aka Razor Ramon Dies

The two-time WWE Hall of Famer, Scott Hall passed away, due to heart attack. He was 63. His tenure with World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) began in May 1992. With WWE, he was famously known by his ring name as 'Razor Ramon'. He went on to become a four-time WWE Intercontinental champion.
In 2014, Scott Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as an individual wrestler and then again in 2020 as part of NWO. Scott Hall is a two-time world champ with WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship.

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