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Historical Event on 1/1/1879
Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/15/1956 | A combined army and police action against well armed Naga rebels. |
2/26/1857 | First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry. |
4/4/1889 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh. |
1/7/1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
5/30/1895 | Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, great historian in Goa, was born. |
6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
2/12/1993 | Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket. |
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