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


 

Historical Event on 4/14/1891

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji 'Babasaheb' Ambedkar, India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
10/29/1935Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
1/16/1938Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
12/1/1994Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
4/20/1887Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born.
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
12/24/1987Dr. M.G.Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, died. He was 70 yrs. He was posthumously awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the President of India. (17-1-90).
4/26/1858Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels.