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


 

Historical Event on 11/1/1954

French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
12/3/1993Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
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.
5/15/1958Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi.
4/15/1946Triumphant over flesh and pain they passed away our day of peace to Cain. The original memorial was erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
11/17/1953Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
4/5/1614Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.