Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rocheter, Duluth, Bloomington Indian Community - MinneapolisIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/3/1945

No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
12/21/1999Kushabhau Thakre, BJP president, said that Ayodhya issue was a 'programme' and not an ideology of the party.
1/2/1948Nehru threatens Indian action to stop Pakistani raids into Kashmir.
4/9/1991Rajendra Mathur, editor of Hindi daily newspaper 'Navbharat Times', passed away.
1/9/1971Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.