|
|
Historical Event on 5/31/1987
Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1897 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War. |
| 2/15/1920 | Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta. |
| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 10/28/1997 | Govt. extends ceasefire in Nagaland by 3 months from October 31. |
| 4/11/1887 | Jamini Roy, famous artist, was born. |
| 8/22/1818 | Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85. |
| 8/4/1997 | Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members. |
| 11/17/1973 | Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
