1900 |
Famous poet Sumitranandan Pant of Hindi world was born on this day. |
1918 |
Piru Singh, a valiant soldier of the Indian Army who was instrumental in the 1947 Indo-Pak war, was born. |
1929 |
Rajkumar Shukla died. He was a freedom fighter and one of the prominent people of Champaran Satyagraha. |
1932 |
Vipin Chandra Pal, leader of the Garam Dal in India and the father of revolutionary ideas, passed away. |
1957 |
T. Prakasam died. He was a famous freedom fighter and the first Chief Minister of Andhra State. |
1972 |
Famous poet of Brajbhas Gaya Prasad Shukla 'Sanehi' dies |
2012 |
Renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar Leela Dubey died. |
2011 |
Mountaineer Premlata Agarwal of Jharkhand created a new history in mountaineering, having the distinction of being the oldest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain peak. |
2011 |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the oil refinery at Bina in Madhya Pradesh to the country at a cost of thousands of crores. It is a world class project with the efforts of Bharat Petroleum Limited, Oman Oil Company and Government of Madhya Pradesh. |