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Historical Event on 9/19/1997
A Delhi court rules that interviewing of the child and parents by school authorities, for admission to primary classes, is illegal and improper.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/13/1909 | E. M. S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 9/20/1999 | T. R. Rajakumari (78), the dream girl of the Tamil silver screen for over two decades, died. |
| 1/25/1932 | Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 3/3/1989 | Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant. |
| 7/13/1929 | Jatindranath Das started fast strike. |
| 3/25/1990 | Lakshadweep Council elections. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
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