Orlando, Tampa,Miami, Jacksonville Indian Community - MyFloridaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/19/1977

World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
10/10/1998Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India.
5/9/1997At least 71 persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying a marriage party plunges into gorge near Gasota in Hamerpur district of Himachal Pradesh.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
8/3/1954Atomic Energy Department established.
2/14/1807Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
11/27/1888Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda.
1/1/1874The first women magazine ""Bola Bodhini"" was published.
8/18/1995Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.