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Historical Event on 7/1/1862
Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
8/25/1999 | Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi. |
4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
3/17/1959 | Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet. |
9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
10/17/1940 | Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it. |
6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
1/10/1975 | India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
4/17/1975 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras. |
5/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away. |
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