Baltimore Indian Community - BaltimoreIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/31/1999

This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/10/1910Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
11/24/1963Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away.
1/10/1920India became member of League of Nations.
6/27/1999India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey.
1/9/1982A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.
1/9/1982The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East.
3/3/1906Trailokyanath Goswami, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Nalbari, Assam .
9/12/1686Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.