1920 |
The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam passed away. |
1975 |
Sikkim became the 22nd state of India. |
1847 |
The Bombay Gadget newspaper was first published in 1841 on silk cloth. |
1929 |
The first non-stop flight from England to India was completed in 1929. |
1980 |
Situated in 1980, the Center for Positional Astronomy was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
1990 |
In 1990, VRP Menon set a world record by performing disco dance for 463 hours in a row. |
1993 |
A 1993 Boeing-737 plane crash in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, killed about 60 people. |
2006 |
India and Uzbekistan signed 6 treaties in 2006. |
2008 |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country in 2008. |
2010 |
The Bihar government decided in 2010 to brand Bihar's famous Chiniya banana as 'Ganga Banana'. |
1864 |
Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi, a disciple of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and one of the five prominent leaders of the Arya Samaj, was born. |