Denver Indian Community - DenverIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/8/1996

Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/2/1991Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport.
7/5/1993Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff.
12/29/1983Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies.
11/19/1917Indira (Pridarshani) Gandhi, the first Indian Lady Prime Minister, was born at Allahabad. She was the only child of Jawharlal Nehru and took active participation in freedom fight by forming ""Vanar Sena"" (a team of young detectives). She lead India in a successful war against Pakistan to seperate East and West Pakistans and establish the nation of Banglades
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
5/1/1913Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
12/17/1998P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
2/24/1996Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA.
8/21/1931Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.