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Historical Event on 6/21/1906
Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/7/1999 | Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi. |
2/16/1905 | Padmabhushan Aliyawar Jang, former Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
11/5/1906 | Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name. |
5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
7/12/1965 | Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay, Indian middle-order batsman), was born in Mangalore. |
1/30/1999 | Gopinath Bordoloi was awarded the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, The Highest Civilian Award in India. 1999. |
1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
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