Houston Indian Community - HoustonIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 11/2/1956

Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
2/27/1931Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
1/18/1925Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born.
7/19/1994The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent.
5/16/1995Government of India decides not to extend the validity of TADA Act.
7/1/1913Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra State, was born at Ganuli (Yeotmal).
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
10/21/1997Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.