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Historical Event on 3/19/2000
Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 1/18/1950 | Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away. |
| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
| 12/7/1999 | Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK. |
| 2/10/1859 | General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny. |
| 9/20/1993 | Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit. |
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