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Historical Event on 7/21/1906
W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/27/1992 | Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years. |
11/18/1997 | School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children. |
7/7/1901 | J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta. |
4/18/1858 | Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born. |
6/25/1998 | Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
11/27/1998 | India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
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. |
9/25/1990 | S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died. |
10/12/1998 | Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma |
1/12/1924 | Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune. |
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