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Historical Event on 10/9/1874
Nicholas Roerich, great professor, master, artist, scientist, educator, writer, designer, poet, explorer and humanitarian, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He led artistic and scientific expedition in Himalayas and settled in Kulu valley.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
11/16/1995 | The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion. |
8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
10/21/1990 | Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays. |
6/3/1947 | Evening newspaper 'Jay Hind' published. |
2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
1/5/1948 | Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan. |
5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
1/5/1890 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore died. |
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