Philadelphia Indian Community - PhiladelphiaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/16/1952

Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
5/15/1873The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England.
12/4/1982Asian Games at Delhi concluded.
2/2/1965Government sanction was accorded to the Officers Training School for the start of Short Service Regular Commission.
5/27/1995National Centre for Labour launched in Bangalore to give a boost to the unorganised worker's movement in India.
8/10/1995Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
9/16/1931Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
3/11/1992Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.