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Historical Event on 1/27/1888
Jinvijayji Muni, famous Shwetambar Jain Yati, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/20/1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand. |
8/20/1995 | India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control. |
1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
9/5/1612 | East India Company's Navy eastablished. |
7/22/1998 | 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. |
7/22/1998 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
9/25/1919 | Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established. |
12/27/1998 | Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh. |
7/5/1981 | Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory. |
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