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Historical Event on 2/11/1993
Centre bans BJP rally in the capital on February 25.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/6/1992 | The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers. |
5/13/1923 | Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam). |
9/6/1905 | Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born. |
2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
12/30/1974 | Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi. |
7/28/1912 | Ramchandra Gondo Ginde, famous neuro surgeon, was born. |
2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
9/26/1904 | R. V. Jagirdar, famous Kannad play writer, was born. |
2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
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