Des Moines Indian Community - DesMoinesIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/11/1968

Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1980Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship.
8/18/199112 LTTE militants commit suicide.
6/20/1979Renedy Singh, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Manipur.
11/25/1999Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
3/12/1972Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.
12/4/1920Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton), was born in Jhansi, India.
6/18/1946Congress Working Committee decides to accept Interim Government scheme.
1/30/1908Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise.
2/21/1998Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"".
2/26/1996Parliament's budget session opens.