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Historical Event on 3/20/1977
General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/10/1997 | Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing. |
12/22/1947 | Dilip Rasiklal Doshi, cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi), was born in Rajkot. |
10/22/1937 | Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts. |
8/4/1956 | Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay. |
1/12/2000 | The Union Cabinet approves a proposal of the Civil Aviation Ministry to privatise the airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta and a new airport in Bangalore on a 30-year lease which can be extended by 19 years. |
3/12/1969 | Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. |
1/7/1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
4/14/1988 | Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
7/1/1781 | British troops defeated Hyder Ali's progress. He was checked by Eyree Coote after the battle of Porto Novo and becamed subdued. |
2/7/1981 | 61 die in circus fire in Bangalore. |
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