Jacksonville Indian Community - JacksonvilleIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 3/13/1958

Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/27/2000Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta.
4/7/1818British Government imposed 'State Prisoners Regulation III -1818' for detention and deportion of political prisoners and revolutionaries without any trial. This black act was in force till 1947 when India got independence.
6/20/1993Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.
12/28/1930Police are stoned by demonstrators as they attempt to prevent an illegal flag-salutation ceremony at Bombay.
4/1/1963D.P. Kohli held office as the founder director of Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.) from 1st April, 1963 (to 31st May, 1968). Earlier, he was Inspector-General of Police of the Special Police Establishment.
11/30/1909Ramesh Chandra died.
2/6/1994World Marathi Chember of Commerce' established.
6/22/1898The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
6/3/1992M. N. Goiporia, SBI Chairman, asked to go on leave following security scam.