** Tamil New Year, or Puthandu ( India's Tamil Nadu state, Sri Lanka )

** The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature:

** Maatu Pongal, celebrated by performing Jallikattu ( Tamil )

** Bhogi ( Tamil )

** A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.

** In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill more than 200.

** Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet ( d. 1921 )

** Jayakanthan, Tamil writer

** Tamil Maanila Congress

** All Ceylon Tamil Congress

** History of Tamil Nadu

** Kezhvaragu ( க ே ழ ் வரக ு), kay. pai ( க ே ப ் ப ை), Aariyam ( ஆர ி யம ்)( Tamil )

** Koozh is a millet porridge commonly sold in Tamil Nadu.

** Karunya University ( Tamil Nadu, India )

** Tamil cuisine

** Tamil cuisine

** Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

** Tamil poetry

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** the Tamil Language ( Special Provisions ) Act No. 28 of 1958 ( Ceylon ) passed in Ceylon in 1958 allows Tamil in education, public service entrance exams and administration in the Northern and Eastern provinces

** the Official Languages Act of 1987 ( Sri Lanka ) passed in Sri Lanka in 1987 to make Tamil an official language of the country

** In India similar articles of clothing are the in Manipur, dhoti ( or dhuti in West Bengali, veshtti in Tamil, pancha in Telugu, panche in Kannada and Mundu in Malayalam ).

** Chirac ( 19. 88 %), Le Pen ( 16. 86 %), Jospin ( 16. 18 %), Bayrou ( 6. 5 %), Lauguiller ( 5. 72 %), Mamere ( 5. 25 %), Chevenement ( 5. 32 %), Besancenot ( 4. 5 %), Saint-Josse ( 4. 0 %), Hue ( 3. 6 %).

** Marine Le Pen, French politician

** Pen Hadow becomes the first person to walk alone, without any outside help, from Canada to the North Pole.

** Alec Su 蘇有朋 / 苏有朋 ( 1973 -, Taipei, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Su Rhiu Pen ), Actor / singer

** Andre Young, Chauncey Hannibal, Teddy Riley, William Stewart, Lynise Walters, Richard Vick and Bill Withers for " No Diggity " performed by Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen

** Wazir al-Qalam: Minister of the Pen.

** " Pavel Navrotsky's Pig Pen " ( with Paul Kirchner, in The Big Book of Losers, 1997 )

** Nirvana ( as Skid Row, later Pen Cap Chew, later Bliss, and later Ted Ed Fred )

** Kymwt Penn Buellt ( Cwmwd Pen Buellt )

** Queen Pen & Tracey Lee: " Rock The Body "

** FDR: That Man in the White House, a play by Dore Schary about Roosevelt

** Arms and the Man ( 1894 )

** The Man of Destiny ( 1895 )

** Man Kam To Control Point

** " The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo "

** 1995: " The Man in the Black Suit "

** Episode 8 " The Old Man " ( Writer )

** The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.

** Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian ( Chico and the Man ) ( b. 1954 )

** Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.

** Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor

** Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder and former World's Strongest Man

** A United States B-29 Bomber, Bockscar, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed " Fat Man ", on Nagasaki, Japan, at 11: 02 a. m. ( local time ).

** Iron Man debuts in Marvel Comics's Tales of Suspense # 39.

** Matt Goldman, Blue Man Group founder

** The film Man of La Mancha, based on the hit musical, begins a roadshow run in New York City.

** Yip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu ( b. 1893 )

** King William's College on the Isle of Man officially opens.

** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.

** The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.

** Robert Vaughn, American actor ( Man from U. N. C. L. E.

** Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.

** The Buchan School, Isle of Man.

** John II Stanley of the Isle of Man

** Iris, a Mega Man Battle Network character