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Historical Event on 1/2/2000
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, author of timeless classics 'Charitraheen' and 'Grihadaha', chosen novelist of the century in an online poll conducted by a literary magazine.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1994 | Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking. |
| 5/25/1877 | Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 4/9/1695 | Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav. |
| 5/13/1857 | Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP. |
| 5/2/1907 | Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab. |
| 3/6/1775 | Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War. |
| 5/21/1996 | M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor. |
| 5/13/1648 | Redfort construction was completed |
| 12/25/1861 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, freedom fighter and founder of Banaras Hindu University, was born at Allahabad. |
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