Austin Indian Community - AustinIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 4/8/1923

Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1971India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi.
11/5/1997Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.
6/14/1997India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory.
3/12/1967Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.
12/11/1929Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
10/20/1990Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
2/23/1997Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India.
1/4/1999Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.