Portland Indian Community - PortlandIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/22/1843

Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, accepted Brahmo religion at the hands of Ramchandra Vidyabagish.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1952India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
10/9/1942Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the national flag at Jail Gate of Lahore. She was then arrested and send to Ambala Jail.
9/5/1888Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
6/12/1997Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354).
2/8/1785Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left  India.
2/1/1889Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
8/22/1993Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
2/24/1996S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.