|
|
Historical Event on 8/8/1948
Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/11/1975 | Oil struck in third Bombay High rig. |
1/11/1966 | Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966. |
1/29/1968 | Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died. |
6/30/1993 | AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF. |
7/24/1932 | Madhukar Devram Toradmal, famous actor and playwright, was born. |
11/29/1945 | Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended. |
8/4/1956 | Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay. |
1/26/1981 | Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated. |
8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
8/13/1784 | East India Company was appointed as the centralised Regulatory Authority through India by Pitt's India Act, which was accepted in British Parliament in England. |
|
|
|
|