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


 

Historical Event on 3/22/1793

Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1963Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away.
4/6/1992Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started.
5/10/1910Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
5/13/2000Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
3/16/1992Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the honorary Oscar by a three-member Oscar committee at a Calcutta nursing home.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
4/7/1993Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand.
1/29/1998Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.
9/22/1937The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.