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Historical Event on 6/30/1917
Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji, great Indian, patriot and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, politician and merchant, died at the age of 92.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
6/27/1967 | First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. |
6/11/1996 | Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case. |
11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
7/16/1936 | Venkataraman Subramanya, cricketer (Indian bowler in nine Tests mid-60's, Leg Break Googly, Right Arm), was born in Bangalore. |
12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
5/4/1799 | Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam. |
2/2/1982 | Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras. |
3/10/1922 | Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati. |
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