Vancouver, Surrey Indian Community - BCIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/26/1960

More medals for armed forces were instituted including the Vishisht Seva Medal (in the classes), Sainya Seva Medal, Videsh Seva Medal and Sena, Nao Sena and Vayu Sena Medals.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
3/25/1999Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore.
6/1/1993Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated.
12/5/1933Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
11/21/1947First Stamp of Independent India was released
4/1/1878Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.
11/9/1999Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.
7/1/1990General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff.
4/1/1947Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi.