Important Fact

 Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh was created on April 15, 1948 by the merger of 30 small princely states of Punjab and Shimla Hills into the Indian Union.

IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was founded in 1948 and regularly produces the Red List of Threatened Species, which gives information on the 'status of wild species and their links to livelihoods'.

Atomic Bomb

During World War II Enrico Fermi created a chain reaction of nuclear splitting, or 'fission'. This unleashed energy to create an incredibly powerful bomb. At Los Alamo, New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer used this idea to make the first nuclear bombs.