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Historical Event on 1/14/1969
Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1977 | Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 12/19/1994 | K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away. |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 12/31/1941 | Milkha Singh Govindsingh Amritsar, cricketer (brother of Kripal Singh, Indian batsman in 4 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
| 5/22/1953 | Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World). |
| 12/5/1931 | Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born. |
| 7/14/1999 | Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 7/24/1991 | Industrial licensing scrapped. |
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