Detroit Indian Community - DetroitIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 5/19/1971

Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1942Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi.
4/1/1878Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.
9/19/1933Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born.
3/12/1988Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away.
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
9/6/1993CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M).
12/10/1886Ardeshir M. Irani, producer, director, exhibitor and founder of Star Films Ltd. Bombay, was born at Poona. His first film was 'Veer Abhimanyu'.
9/24/1914Janardan Swami was born.
3/29/1977S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77).
3/6/1961India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.