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Historical Event on 7/7/1937
Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/15/1995 | PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
12/26/1947 | K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State. |
6/4/1953 | University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru. |
5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
3/25/1928 | S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born. |
10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
3/1/1914 | Minto Gilbert Jhon Alieat, former viceroy of India, passed away. |
9/6/1657 | Shahjahan fell ill. His four sons Dara Shikoh, Suja, Aurangzeb and Murad advanced towards Delhi to capture the throne. |
1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
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