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Historical Event on 6/25/1992
BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/23/1909 | New direct 7,000-mile telegraphic link with India is hailed as a great achievement at London. |
1/31/1903 | Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born. |
5/15/1958 | Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
4/12/1801 | Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab. |
10/1/1959 | Hon'ble Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1964. |
6/26/1888 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani. |
10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
4/26/1995 | Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
12/19/1952 | Nehru announces the Government's decision for establishing an Andhra State, constituting Telugu speaking areas of the State of Madras, excluding the city. |
7/3/1863 | Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], santee Sioux Indian chief, passed away. |
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