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Historical Event on 3/1/1640
Britishers were allowed to do commercial activities in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1899 | Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 9/24/1859 | Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal. |
| 8/29/2000 | Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 9/11/1913 | Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born. |
| 1/14/1985 | Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 12/22/1998 | Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998. |
| 11/24/1881 | Ram Rachhpal, son of Sukhi Ram, called 'Chhotu', freedom fighter, politician and leader, was born in a 'Jat' famlily in a small village Garhi Sampla in Rohpak district. His life was a saga of sincere and ceaseless striving to improve the condition of the poor peasants in India, popularly known as 'Deenbandhu'. |
| 7/10/1991 | C. G. Pandit, famous scientist and Padmabhushan awardee, died. |
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