Atlanta Indian Community - AtlantaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 3/20/1977

General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1978The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions.
4/7/1934Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
9/29/19881988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
2/2/1982Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.
11/24/1969Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab.
12/21/2000Women's Bill put off again.
10/11/1894Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
4/3/1966First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.