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Historical Event on 3/21/1992
India's second submarine 'Shankul' joined Navy.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/28/1986 | Accord with Mizo National Front; Lal Denga to be the chief minister of Mizoram. |
6/23/1894 | Edward VIII, king of Great Brit/N-Ireland and emperor of India (1936), was born. |
4/26/1999 | The President dissolves Lok Sabha and orders fresh elections. |
3/3/1906 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born. |
12/1/1928 | The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta. |
9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
12/23/1902 | Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. |
6/9/1949 | Kiran Bedi, the first woman Indian Police Service Officer, was born in Amritsar, Punjab. |
3/31/1935 | 374 infants wed at a mass ceremony. |
5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
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