Idaho - Boise, Moscow, Idaho Falls Indian Community - IdahoIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/2/1858

British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/2000India clinches the inaugural Asian Cricket Council under-15 championship in Kuala Lumpur.
11/27/1778Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon.
5/20/1991General Election (10th) of India begins.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
8/1/1931Bhairabh Ganguly, cricket test umpire for 5 tests from 1981-85, was born at Bengal.
10/12/1997Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.
11/3/1995Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim.
8/2/1993CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
3/13/1878The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.