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Historical Event on 2/4/1924
Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
10/24/2000 | Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur. |
4/18/1904 | Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born. |
12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
2/2/1967 | US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India. |
7/22/1993 | Swiss Justice ministry reveals that Hindujas, Quatrocchi and Win Chadha are among the seven appellants fighting to prevent the transfer of Bofors pay off names to India. |
1/15/1934 | Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed. |
2/1/1831 | The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta. |
4/4/1786 | In British Parliament, Berk alleged 11 corruption charges against Indian Governor General Warren Hastings. |
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