|
|
Historical Event on 1/15/1965
Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/13/1931 | Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 9/29/2000 | Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari. |
| 3/17/1910 | Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away. |
| 4/5/1848 | Satara kingdom came to end. |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 12/20/1967 | Indira Gandhi gets powers to outlaw groups that question sovereignty. |
| 4/29/1936 | Zubin Mehta, famous music conductor (NY Philharmonic), was born in Bombay, India. |
| 10/24/1934 | Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
