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Historical Event on 10/31/1895
Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/31/1895 | 24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India. |
8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
7/7/1943 | Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore. |
8/15/1942 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace. |
3/21/1992 | India's second submarine 'Shankul' joined Navy. |
1/1/1862 | Indian Penal Code and code of Criminal Procedure passed on October 6, 1860 came into force. |
2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
6/28/1928 | Baburao Sadvelkar, famous painter, was born. |
2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
8/17/1998 | The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent. |
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