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Historical Event on 1/14/1959
Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/1978 | The Indian National Congress (I) recognized as a national party and allotted the election symbol 'hand' (Palm). |
| 2/2/1978 | While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River. |
| 12/13/1989 | Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison. |
| 11/15/1997 | INS Delhi' commissioned. |
| 9/9/1941 | Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad. |
| 1/1/1994 | Hindu Heritage Endowment, first Hindu international trust, was founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 3/29/1963 | Siyaramsharan Gupt, great autor of Hindi language, died. |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
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