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Historical Event on 7/20/1969
Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
2/5/1922 | Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc. |
10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
6/20/1858 | Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end. |
2/8/1897 | Dr. Zakir Hussain, third President of India and Educationist, was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. |
12/10/1990 | Dr. L. P. Barbosa, Goa CM, resigns following withdrawal of support by Maharashta Gomantak Party. |
7/5/1992 | Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories. |
8/4/1935 | Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935. |
12/31/1706 | Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. |
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