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


 

Historical Event on 1/3/1880

Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1891Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
1/22/1998Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
2/17/1670Shivaji won SinghGarh Fort from Mughals. This victory was on the shoulders of Tanaji who was martyred in this attack. Shivaji proclaimed ""Garh Aalaa Pan Singh Gela"" which means that Fort was won but the Lion was lost.
7/2/1938Chandra K. N. Patel was born at Baramati near Pune. In 1974, he was the youngest scientist to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. Besides, he is the recipient of the Ballantine Medal, The Worykin Award and The lamme Medal. Chandra K. N. Patel is the Executive Director of one of the divisions of the AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
3/12/1944No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram.
11/14/1996Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced.
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.