Virginia Indian Community - VirginiaIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 10/17/1903

7th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1990Dr. L. P. Barbosa, Goa CM, resigns following withdrawal of support by Maharashta Gomantak Party.
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
1/29/1979Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
8/3/1954Atomic Energy Department established.
11/22/1916Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
11/19/2000Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.
11/28/1998The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
8/25/1992Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio.
4/27/1993A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up.
12/14/1979Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer, two Tests for India and bowling average of 205, died.