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


 

Historical Event on 11/17/1857

Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India
9/8/1952The Copyright bill was signed during the first world convention by 35 nations including India at Geneva.
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
6/1/1819William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
11/23/1937Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl
10/15/1990Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour.