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Historical Event on 1/22/1901
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1969 | Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. |
| 2/20/1982 | The 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. |
| 8/27/1987 | B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal. |
| 5/25/1915 | Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. |
| 1/4/1889 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born. |
| 3/19/1936 | Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
| 12/20/2000 | The Government accepts the Eleventh Finance Commission recommendation to extend grants to all the States from the Incentive Fund. |
| 11/28/1704 | Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 10/6/1997 | Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title. |
| 12/31/1929 | At the Lahore session, under the Presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress adopted a resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj' (Complete Independence), the slogan given by Gandhiji. The tricolour flag of freedom was unfurled and 26th January 1930 was decided to be celebrated as Independence day every year. This session led to Civil Disobedience Movement, Dandi March to break the Salt Law, etc. |
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