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Historical Event on 1/29/1781
First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/15/2000 | Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan. |
11/12/1954 | Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979), was born in Madras. |
10/3/1957 | Republican Party of India established. |
3/30/1997 | Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government. |
4/20/1930 | The Viceroy imposes an ordinance for the suppression of terrorism, following a series of attacks. |
9/24/1938 | Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India. |
6/13/1879 | Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born. |
1/12/2000 | T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired. |
5/22/1970 | Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'. |
8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
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