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Historical Event on 9/17/1954
India outlaws bigamy.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/23/1927 | Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station. |
11/21/1962 | India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. |
9/15/1999 | Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead. |
5/5/1998 | Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
5/31/1995 | Statute Bill, a constitutional amendment bill, introduced in Lok Sabha to extend reservation in jobs and in promotion for SCs and STs. |
4/1/1869 | Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation. |
5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
4/2/1987 | Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards. |
7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
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