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Historical Event on 1/14/1959
Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
9/21/1938 | Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
2/27/1990 | Polls in Pondicherry and eight states. |
6/8/1999 | ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively. |
9/6/1999 | Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP. |
12/16/1909 | Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
1/6/1987 | Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust. |
6/30/1823 | Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
3/5/1993 | The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment. |
9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
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