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Historical Event on 11/16/1908
Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/19/1993 | Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64. |
9/29/2000 | A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt. |
12/22/1998 | Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998. |
3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
6/9/1659 | Dara Shikoh was handed over to Aurangzeb's army by Jiwan Khan, a Baluchi whose life was saved by Dara. |
4/15/1950 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'. |
12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
8/8/1967 | Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha. |
12/19/1945 | Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan. |
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