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Historical Event on 1/17/1771
Govind Patwardhan Mirajkar, first Rao of Peshwai, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/22/1915 | Mohandas Gandhi returns to India. |
3/1/1818 | Singhgad won by the Britishers after the end of Peshwa kingdom. |
6/23/1992 | Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh. |
11/16/1877 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat |
2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
3/10/1954 | The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954. |
4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
7/7/1855 | As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta alongwith weapons to fight the British army. |
10/5/1932 | Madhavrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (7 Tests for India, 1 century), was born in Bombay. |
10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
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