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Historical Event on 4/24/1929
First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/6/2000 | Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000. |
9/15/1993 | Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram. |
7/18/1908 | Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay. |
9/19/2000 | India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US. |
3/12/1992 | Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC). |
5/13/1923 | Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam). |
10/15/1899 | Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born. |
5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
9/16/1931 | R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
7/25/2000 | Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers' Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service. |
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