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Historical Event on 1/1/1897
Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/20/1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria. |
6/4/1986 | Masti Vyanktesh Iyengar, famous Kannad author and Gyanpeeth Puraskar awardee, passed away. |
8/26/1984 | An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers. |
10/12/1976 | Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died. |
6/28/1995 | Madhya Pradesh in central India is designated a `tiger state' to protect the animal from poachers and settlers. |
6/22/1991 | M. Karunanidhi, DMK President, resigned from the Assembly. |
3/18/1998 | A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code. |
8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
11/1/1996 | Michael Jackson show at Andheri sports complex in Mumbai. |
10/30/1996 | Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case. |
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