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Historical Event on 4/15/1994
India signed `GAT' agreement.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/29/1911 | Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield. |
8/13/1993 | All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly. |
2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
5/18/1946 | Gandhiji discusses Plan with Cabinet Mission. |
4/14/1944 | Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food. |
2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
10/6/1927 | The first independent film processing laboratory, Atmanand Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao alias Dhanjibhai K. Desai at Bombay. |
3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
3/17/1997 | Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty, died in Delhi. |
10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
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