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Historical Event on 8/1/1922
Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat .
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/5/1998 | Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997. |
9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
9/7/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral. |
4/5/1979 | First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay. |
1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
2/28/1998 | The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory. |
7/5/1981 | Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory. |
2/11/1993 | Kamal Amrohi, famous film producer, director and writer, died at the age of 76 years. He is famous for his Hindi films such as Mahal (1949), Pakeezah (1972) and Razia Sultan (1983). He also established Kamal Pictures (Mahal Films) in 1953 and Kamalistan Studio in Bombay in 1958. |
10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
2/16/1745 | Thorle Madhavrao, fourth Peshwa in Maratha kingdom, was born. |
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