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Historical Event on 2/6/1966
Madurai Kamraj University established.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/19/2000 | India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US. |
2/6/1994 | Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away. |
1/29/1912 | Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
8/12/1996 | Supreme Court stays further proceedings against Narasimha Rao in Chandraswami-Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case. |
7/25/1977 | B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President. |
1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
3/31/1959 | Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India. |
12/16/1951 | Salarjung Museum opened in Hyderabad. |
3/27/1990 | 21 people die as a bus accidentally touched a high voltage wire in Karagpur India. |
7/13/1830 | Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Alexander Duff, in 1921 Scottish Church College, General Assembly s Institution was established with only five students, where teaching of the Bible took an important part. |
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