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Historical Event on 7/20/1654
Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 10/14/1992 | 10 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah. |
| 12/15/1894 | Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born. |
| 10/1/1959 | Hon'ble Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1964. |
| 10/2/1972 | Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started. |
| 8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
| 12/24/1993 | Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died. |
| 8/15/1993 | Five more Doordarshan channels launched. |
| 9/7/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral. |
| 5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
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