|
|
Historical Event on 8/20/1909
Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/4/1948 | Burma achieved its independence from Great Britain. In 1989, Burma changed its name to Myanmar to reflect the multi-ethnic composition of the country. Apart from the Burmese, the main ethnic minority groups are the Karen, Shan, Mon, Chin, and Kachin. Just as the Burmese did against the British, almost all of these ethnic groups have struggled against the Burmese government for self-determination. |
| 11/21/1991 | R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants. |
| 1/4/1994 | Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56. |
| 11/20/1993 | RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd. |
| 2/21/1894 | Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, famous scientist, was born at Bhera, Punjab. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 12/11/1998 | Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 1/14/1773 | Amstored Lord William Piet, governor, was born. |
| 8/10/1901 | Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
