Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'. It tells the story of an overweight Dominican-American nerd cursed by the 'fukú' of his ancestors.

Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Booker Prize for 'The White Tiger'. The novel is a darkly comic epistolary tale about a driver in India who climbs the social ladder through corruption and murder.

Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' is the sequel to her 1985 classic 'The Handmaid's Tale'. It won the 2019 Booker Prize jointly with Bernardine Evaristo's 'Girl, Woman, Other'.

Marlon Brando refused the award in protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, sending Sacheen Littlefeather in his place.

The leap years were 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. That makes 4 actual birthdays (excluding the day of birth).

When January and February were added to the Roman calendar, they were the last months. To fit the lunar cycle, February was given the fewer remaining days (28), and it was considered an unlucky month used for purification rituals.

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, was passed in March 1919, sparking widespread protests.

Pakistan conducted successful nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, in the Chagai district of Balochistan, in response to Indian tests earlier that month.

The Khilafat Movement began in 1919 under the leadership of the Ali brothers to protest the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.

The Partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911 by King George V at the Delhi Durbar, reuniting East and West Bengal due to strong Hindu protests.