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


 

Historical Event on 1/14/1994

The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1988Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
9/3/1931Dr. Chandreshwarprasad Rachamohan Thakur was born in Dubaha, Distt. Muzaffarpur (Bihar).
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
2/22/1948Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born.
8/22/1984R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).
10/1/1847Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
7/27/1982Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi first visited the US in almost 11 years.
9/7/1996First phase of J & K Assembly elections.