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


 

Historical Event on 7/23/1906

Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1903Sen also produced the first publicity films of India--""Jaba Kusum Hair Oil'' and ''Edward's Anti-malaria Specific''. He also filmed the celebrations of the Coronation of King Edward VII at Calcutta.
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
12/6/1929British Viceroy meets with Indian leaders to discuss dominion status for India.
12/29/1965First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory.
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
8/18/1995Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
4/10/1919Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her.
8/1/1993Dr. K. N. Raju, a Nilakantan protegee, assumes office as NAL's fourth Director.
5/31/1947Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.