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Historical Event on 12/14/1931
Viceroy of India issues new powers to seize properties of those who, following independence leader Gandhi, refuse to pay taxes.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/14/1952 | Three integrated Railway Zones, Northern, North Eastern and Eastern inaugurated. |
6/7/1998 | India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars. |
7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
11/15/1911 | First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
3/4/1990 | Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively. |
6/17/1950 | Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away. |
12/3/1998 | India and Portugal sign an agreement in New Delhi for setting up a joint committee to enhance cooperation in science and technology. |
11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
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