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


 

Historical Event on 4/16/1992

The PM gives a new slogan to the nation, 'Desh banao, desh bachao'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/15/1996Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
1/14/1998The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together for a three-nation business summit in Dhaka.
9/1/1908Amir Elahi, right-hand batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler, born at Multan in Lahore.
1/15/1971Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away.
2/25/1970Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away.
1/30/1905Pitamber Das, social reformer and politician, was born at Mowana, U.P.
10/4/1847Pratapsingh Bhosle, Maratha King, died.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
1/21/1983R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away.