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Historical Event on 4/6/1664
Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
10/9/1874 | Nicholas Roerich, great professor, master, artist, scientist, educator, writer, designer, poet, explorer and humanitarian, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He led artistic and scientific expedition in Himalayas and settled in Kulu valley. |
9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
9/24/1829 | Anandram Dhekial Fukan, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, was born. |
3/16/1992 | Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the honorary Oscar by a three-member Oscar committee at a Calcutta nursing home. |
6/27/2000 | Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, launches National Initiative for child protection of which childline is an integral part. |
10/13/1987 | Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay. |
1/1/1877 | Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar. |
8/25/1997 | Cabinet approved the draft of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which was to replace the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). |
8/16/1922 | Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska. |
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