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Historical Event on 1/21/1970
Harivinayak Pataskar, former Central Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
5/5/1992 | Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
8/14/1954 | 'State Carrom Association' was established in Mumbai. |
10/13/1967 | Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
7/29/1994 | Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants. |
2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
9/29/1959 | Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat. |
4/1/1889 | Hindu', English language newspaper changed its perodicity from weekly (20/09/1888) to daily. |
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