|
|
Historical Event on 5/17/1865
Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1970 | Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'. |
| 8/15/1998 | Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends. |
| 4/15/1874 | Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of `Maharashtra Natak Mandali', was born. |
| 12/23/1959 | Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78. |
| 1/20/1879 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born. |
| 10/27/1987 | Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died. |
| 10/31/1999 | Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award. |
| 10/6/1999 | Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 3/22/1907 | Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
