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Historical Event on 7/3/1997
Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/29/1802 | Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army. |
4/14/1952 | Three integrated Railway Zones, Northern, North Eastern and Eastern inaugurated. |
12/27/1926 | Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK. |
8/2/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship. |
9/15/1862 | Gaurishankar Hirachand Oza, famous historian, was born. |
6/1/1944 | Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away. |
12/15/1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
6/18/1887 | Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, freedom fighter, educationist, leader and Minister of India, was born in Poiyavan village, Gaya district, Bihar. |
11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
11/12/1885 | Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born. |
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