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Historical Event on 1/31/1896
Dattatray Ramchandra Bendre, Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award winner and Kannad poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/4/1914 | Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps. |
| 8/13/1956 | National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India. |
| 3/1/1997 | India under-19 team wins third `Test', claims three-test series 2-0 win in Matara. |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 12/28/1930 | Police are stoned by demonstrators as they attempt to prevent an illegal flag-salutation ceremony at Bombay. |
| 7/21/1962 | Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons. |
| 3/17/1882 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away. |
| 3/12/1992 | A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property. |
| 7/30/1987 | India says it will revive the 'Agni' IRBM programe. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
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