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Historical Event on 10/10/1991
Anantrao Laxmanrao Kulmarni, editor of monthly magzine 'Sajjangad' and weekly 'Samarth', died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 6/6/1992 | Ordinance issued to attach the properties of persons involved in the security scam. |
| 2/19/1812 | Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma). |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 11/29/1994 | M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission. |
| 6/18/1997 | Prakash Padukone launches IBC. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 9/18/1803 | Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle. |
| 12/12/1955 | The President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union. B.G. Kher Commission (under article 344(I) of the Constitution) constituted. Hindi Teaching Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs. |
| 10/20/1981 | 21-month-old Left United Front Ministry led by E. K. Nayanar resigns in Kerala. |
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