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


 

Historical Event on 8/6/1905

Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1991In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority.
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
7/22/19961996-97 budget presented to Parliament by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.
9/22/1988PM announces Government's decision to drop Defamation Bill.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
10/6/1963Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
4/14/1916Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48), was born at Mamandur, Tamil Nadu.