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Historical Event on 2/28/1937
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1771 | Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial. |
| 4/10/1875 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore. |
| 11/7/1998 | Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas. |
| 11/7/1998 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 8/5/1981 | Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J). |
| 1/4/1909 | Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 4/18/1970 | Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
| 2/9/1898 | The Rower of Persia', a short film produced at Calcutta was released on February 9 at Star Theatre, Calcutta. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
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