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Historical Event on 2/14/1891
Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/24/1991 | Union budget imposes all-round price hike. |
9/17/1885 | Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born. |
1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
12/7/1995 | Indian, UN Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina begin (UNMIBH - Dec 95 To Till Date). |
9/3/2000 | National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu Cricket tournament in Chennai. |
12/3/1984 | 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India. |
4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
9/16/2000 | Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
10/18/1901 | Mahatma Gandhi sails for India. |
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