New Jersey Indian Community - NewJerseyIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/20/1993

Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
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.
8/1/1955Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.
10/11/1986Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash which killed six in Tanzania.
3/16/1946India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.
7/13/1947An Indian Independence Bill was moved in the British Parliament on 4th July 1947 which became an 'Act' on 13th July 1947. Two Boundary Commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff were appointed to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Bengal.
8/8/1990Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
1/5/1957Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force.
6/11/1996Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case.
3/19/1972India and Bangladesh singed mutual aid treaty for peace and friendship for 25 years.