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Historical Event on 1/16/1924
In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/2/1976 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
4/15/1950 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'. |
11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
10/30/1933 | Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai. |
9/26/1999 | Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science. |
2/15/1865 | Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born. |
2/15/1924 | Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
8/12/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis. |
11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
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