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Historical Event on 2/19/1995
National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/13/1992 | Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away. |
11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
5/11/1626 | Malik Ambar of Ahmednagar's Nijamshahi kingdom, passed away. |
6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
12/5/1943 | The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port. |
10/16/1971 | David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere. |
9/16/1967 | Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border. |
5/17/1949 | India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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