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Historical Event on 2/21/1992
Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/31/1935 | 374 infants wed at a mass ceremony. |
1/30/1968 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away. |
8/1/1997 | Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30. |
5/28/1966 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973. |
9/3/1997 | Anjan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist and noted poet, died. |
2/15/1951 | Stephen H. Smith, father and pioneer of Indian Aero Philately or air borne mail, passed away. |
8/8/1991 | India and Soviet Union extend their treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation for 20 more years. |
9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
9/6/1999 | Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP. |
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