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Historical Event on 7/29/1980
India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
8/28/1976 | Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius. |
6/11/1946 | Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre. |
10/6/1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune. |
3/27/1767 | Khanderao Holkar, one of the Generals in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
11/12/1885 | Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born. |
2/3/1873 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, was born. |
12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
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