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


 

Historical Event on 7/11/2000

Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1934Nariman Jamshedji Contractor ""Nari Contractor"", cricketer (Indian batsman & captain) was born in Godhra, Gujarat.
4/25/1955Syed Mohammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, writer, professor and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, passed away.
3/6/1775Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
9/24/1995Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University.
7/26/1991Indian, UN Observer Mission in El Salvador joined (ONUSAL from Jul 1991 To Apr 1995).
6/28/1924Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, passed away on June 28 at Calcutta.
1/21/1993Biren Roy, follower of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
3/2/1996Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being.
1/2/1967University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.