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Historical Event on 11/13/1953
Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/4/1998 | Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing. |
5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
3/26/1938 | Laxminath Bezbarua, great littearateur of modern Assamia language, passed away. |
2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
1/23/1972 | Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi. |
5/4/1849 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born. |
10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
1/1/1910 | Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.). |
7/2/1905 | Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born. |
8/20/1995 | Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched. |
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