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Historical Event on 3/4/1906
Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/9/1991 | Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners. |
9/20/1989 | IPKF suspends its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. LTTE, in turn, ceases all operations against the Indian armed forces. |
2/20/1968 | Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay. |
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 |
9/18/1932 | A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence. |
2/12/1882 | Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born. |
11/22/1928 | British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties. |
4/16/1997 | Anupama Gokhale wins National women's `A' chess in Calcutta. |
7/16/1954 | French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted. |
7/8/1999 | The bodies of 12 soldiers, who martyred in Kargil battle, were brought to New Delhi. So far 321 soldiers were killed and 476 wounded in operation Vijay. |
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