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Historical Event on 9/7/1906
Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/18/1995 | President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation. |
12/6/1992 | 300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition. |
4/19/1960 | Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi. |
9/25/1954 | 14 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader. |
8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
11/29/1928 | Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
1/26/1893 | Srijiva Nyayatirtha Bhattacharya, famous writer and educationist, was born Bhatpara, West Bengal. |
3/30/1949 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away. |
4/30/1998 | Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998. |
10/19/1990 | The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution. |
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