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Historical Event on 9/23/1803
British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/28/1997 | Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta. |
12/4/1997 | Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next. |
1/11/1994 | Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy. |
8/15/1990 | Uttar Maharashtra University was established. |
11/22/1997 | Diana Hayden, 24-year-old Mumbai-born Miss India, beat 85 contestants from around the world to be crowned new 'Miss Universe' at Mahe in Seychelles. |
8/5/1981 | Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J). |
9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
11/30/1858 | Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). |
6/5/1882 | Cyclonic Storm & floods in Arabian Sea hit Bombay. About 100,000 people drowned. |
10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
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