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Historical Event on 7/15/1936
Hridayanand 'Kumaresh' Tiwari, great Hindi poet and writer, was born in Reoti, U.P.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/4/1879 | Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India. |
8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
12/6/1946 | Homeguard Organination was established. |
4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
2/1/1942 | No.1 Squadron arrived in Burma with its Lysanders, flying tactical recce missions from Toungoo before transferring to Mingaladon with a flight deployed at Lashio. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
4/6/1968 | Indira Gandhi,PM, inaugurated the construction of Bokaro Steel Plant. |
2/8/1921 | Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated. |
9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
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