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Historical Event on 9/22/1869
Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/19/1994 | The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent. |
3/31/1992 | The PM to look after foreign affairs. |
10/27/2000 | The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively. |
1/24/1957 | Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made. |
1/19/1995 | Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress. |
9/2/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
8/10/1993 | Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away. |
9/24/1815 | John Sevier, Indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), died at the age of 70. |
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