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Historical Event on 9/12/1966
Mihir Sen, famous Indian swimmer, crossed Darda Nailes Channel.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/2/1975 | India's First Spunge Iron project inaugurated at Vijaywada. |
4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
9/23/1952 | Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad, batsman in 40 Tests (1974-85), was born in Bombay. |
2/21/1672 | A French squadron under De la Haye encountered a fleet of the Dutch, who were in hostility with the French, near Cape Comorin. |
2/21/1672 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
1/8/1999 | Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi. |
4/14/1659 | Aurangzeb defeated his brother Dara Shukoh to capture the throne of Delhi. |
7/31/1912 | Allan Octavian, great social reformer, patriot, lawyer, journalist and politician, passed away at the age of 84. |
4/4/1947 | San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India. |
1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
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