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Historical Event on 10/16/1896
Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/2/1975 | India's First Spunge Iron project inaugurated at Vijaywada. |
12/1/1886 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P. |
10/22/1999 | The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'. |
7/15/1788 | Ghulam Kadir, the infamous son of Jabita Khan, conquered Delhi. |
9/11/1987 | Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away. |
10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
10/21/1950 | China invades Tibet. |
6/17/1973 | Leander Vece Paes, tennis player who singles bronze at Atlanta Olympics (1996), was born. He was also a winner of French Open in 1999, Gold Flake Open, Newport 1998, Wimbledon 1999 (doubles and mixed doubles). |
1/5/1995 | PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai. |
5/20/1957 | Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad. |
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