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Historical Event on 11/29/1962
Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/19/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
3/31/1913 | Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk. |
10/9/2000 | A special court convicts former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha and her associate Sasikala and sentences them to undergo three years imprisonment and two years rigorous imprisonment in two 'Tansi land deal' cases. |
2/1/1889 | Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
5/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
5/30/1995 | Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council. |
10/16/1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India. |
5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
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