|
|
Historical Event on 3/21/1979
Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1997 | INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned. |
| 9/8/1991 | Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam. |
| 9/8/1991 | Firuz Shah Tughluq(1351-88), nephew of Muhammad Tughluq, succeded as emperor of Delhi. |
| 10/18/1993 | Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 10/28/1999 | Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/24/1966 | Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government. |
| 2/10/1943 | Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3. |
| 7/26/1975 | Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
