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Historical Event on 11/30/1989
Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/4/1986 | Helicoptor Corporation of India established. |
11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
12/21/1952 | Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour. |
7/3/1838 | Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of `Prarthana Samaj', was born. |
8/12/1997 | Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers. |
4/14/1891 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji 'Babasaheb' Ambedkar, India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Maharashtra. |
5/1/2000 | Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
4/26/1813 | Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore. |
1/31/1994 | Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia. |
5/22/1961 | Jnanpeeth Award was instituted and the first award was given in 1965. This award is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The award carries a cash price of Rs 2.5 lakh, a citation and a bronze momento. |
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