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Historical Event on 8/1/1990
Devi Lal, Dy. PM, dropped from Union Cabinet following wild charges he made against colleagues in an interview with the 'Illustrated Weekly'.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
1/18/1998 | India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka. |
11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
2/24/1995 | 25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati. |
2/16/1896 | Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born. |
8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
4/6/1773 | James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born. |
9/5/1846 | Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died. |
4/1/1979 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education came under the Administrative Control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. |
5/15/1729 | Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
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