Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland Indian Community - washingtondcIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 6/17/1993

Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1964Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India.
8/17/1932V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
5/8/1906Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
10/12/1993National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.
12/17/1934Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
8/1/1953Bombay Government decides to abolish ''jagirs'' in merged areas.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
4/9/1783Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India.
8/12/1973Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.