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Historical Event on 11/22/1999
V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/23/1920 | King George V signs Home Rule Act. |
12/25/1937 | Pitambar Datt Kaushika, great educationist, was born at Bulandshahar. |
7/24/2000 | The trial in the Rs. 133 crore urea scam resumes after about one year in the special court for CBI cases in New Delhi. |
4/4/1987 | Agney, famous Hindi litterateur and Gyanpeeth Award winning poet, passed away. |
1/20/1871 | Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born. |
4/8/1857 | Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
3/31/1996 | Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu in first innings to win Ranji Trophy. |
10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
3/22/1963 | World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways. |
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