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


 

Historical Event on 2/18/1871

Vishnubuwa Brahamchari, first missionary of Hindu religion, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1967Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
11/19/1917Indira (Pridarshani) Gandhi, the first Indian Lady Prime Minister, was born at Allahabad. She was the only child of Jawharlal Nehru and took active participation in freedom fight by forming ""Vanar Sena"" (a team of young detectives). She lead India in a successful war against Pakistan to seperate East and West Pakistans and establish the nation of Banglades
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
4/4/1990Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989.
6/27/1999India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey.
10/26/1937Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
6/12/1996India's new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda wins vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha and will rule as head of the United Front Coalition.