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Historical Event on 12/4/1910
Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/8/1954 | Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French. |
2/6/1954 | Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India. |
9/29/1708 | British East India Company and New East India company merged. |
1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
12/14/1968 | Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died. |
3/19/1939 | Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad. |
10/23/1997 | I.K. Gujral, PM, leaves for Edinburgh to attend Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting. |
6/8/1929 | Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore. |
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. |
9/6/1903 | Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow. |
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