Wisconsin Indian Community - WIIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/11/1986

The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1993India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi.
1/15/1988Narendra Hirwani makes a world record by capturing 16 West Indies wickets on Test debut at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
7/27/1992Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died.
8/11/1997Hundreds travelling by Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express from Guwahati have miraculous escape as improvised explosive device planted by suspected Bodo extremists explodes on track near Guwahati.
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
8/14/1993New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.