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Historical Event on 11/29/1991
Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/3/1972 | First British designed Indian built mordern warship of the Leander class, 'INS Nilgiri' commissioned Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was completely made in Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai. |
2/21/1899 | Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born. |
6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
12/23/1889 | Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
3/29/1977 | S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77). |
1/12/1949 | Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions. |
1/12/1949 | Guru Ramdasji died. His son Arjun Dev succeeded him and changed the offerings to the Guru into a regular tax. |
1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
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