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Historical Event on 5/1/1915
Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/1/1915 | Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated. |
2/2/1953 | All India Khadi and Village Industries Board started in New Delhi. |
5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
9/15/1909 | Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram. |
1/31/1983 | The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah. |
9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
3/25/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived ferried to Delhi. The Indian Air Force experience with rotary wing aircraft. It was indeed a 'red letter day' in the history of IAF a befitting gift on its coming of age ' when the first helicopter wearing IAF markings appeared at Palam in the form of a Sikorsky, S-55. Such a swift action, complete involvement and dedication on the part of the crew and technicians was the clear indication of the standards with which One-O-Four set about its tasks for others to emulate. |
10/10/1970 | Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. |
8/15/1947 | Paramveer Chakra, Mahaveer Chakra, Veer Chakra instituted as 'Awards for Gallantry'. |
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