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Historical Event on 9/4/1862
Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/10/1993 | India and South Korea sign agreement to expand trade and investment. |
1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
7/12/1993 | West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died. |
4/3/1978 | Pandit Hridaynath Kunzru, social reformer, politician, passed away. He contributed greatly to public life, fighting against caste system, untouchability etc. He was closely affiliated to the 'Servants of India Society' with Ghokhaleji. He even declined to accept the ""Bharat Ratna"" award conferred on him. |
12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
2/16/1980 | The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898. |
1/30/1882 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great leader and social reformer, was born at Hyde Park, New York. |
11/18/1988 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit. |
3/26/1977 | Morarji Desai, the new Prime Minister, forms his Cabinet. |
11/11/1998 | V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai. |
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