🎂 Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, is born (1865)
Where: Mumbai, India
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📅 On This Day: December 30
December 30, 1865: Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, is born. Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai (then Bombay), India. He wrote The Jungle Book, about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, with Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. His childhood memories of India's animals and stories inspired it.
✨ More events on this day
- 1902 🧭 Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition reached 82°17′ south in Antarctica, closer to the South Pole than anyone had ever been before.
- 1927 💡 The Ginza Line opened in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first subway line in Asia, and people lined up for hours to take a ride.
- 1934 🔬 Astrophysicist John Bahcall was born in Louisiana, USA. He helped develop the Hubble Space Telescope and studied tiny particles called neutrinos coming from the Sun.
🧠 Question of the day
Which animals raised Mowgli in The Jungle Book?
- Elephants
- Monkeys
- Wolves
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Answer: Wolves
Questions
What happened on December 30?
December 30, 1865: Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, is born. It happened in Mumbai, India.
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