Columbus Indian Community - OHIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/8/1999

Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
9/1/1930Suhasini Ganguly, freedom fighter, was arrested and send to Hijali Jail for her revolutionery activities. She later lived a low profiled life after release from prision.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.
5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
1/14/1999At least 51 persons are killed and several injured in a stampede at a hilltop at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala in Kerala.
8/18/199112 LTTE militants commit suicide.
7/24/1997Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
5/26/1993The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June.