|
|
Historical Event on 12/17/1905
Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/2/1957 | Central Warehouse Corporation established. |
| 2/10/1927 | Dashrathi (Dashrathi Krishnamacharya), famous Telgu poet, was born. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 6/9/1752 | French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India. |
| 8/10/1905 | Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born. |
| 5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 6/10/1957 | Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 1/10/1987 | Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
