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Historical Event on 1/14/1773
Amstored Lord William Piet, governor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1998 | Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"". |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/17/1994 | Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign. |
| 6/8/1936 | Akashwani Radio was later changed into All India Radio (AIR) in 1958. |
| 3/10/1969 | Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 5/29/1952 | The Socialist Party and Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party decide to form a single parliamentary party. |
| 6/9/1923 | Idris Hassan Latif, Air Chief Marshal, was born at Hyderabad, Deccan. |
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