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Historical Event on 1/1/1877
Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 12/25/1763 | Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops. |
| 2/4/1990 | Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India. |
| 8/2/2000 | The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 6/2/1986 | One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab. |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 3/21/2000 | The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz. |
| 6/12/1897 | Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll). |
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