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


 

Historical Event on 8/15/1955

Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1924Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar .
8/6/1962Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.
7/31/1933Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial.
8/22/1979Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.
1/2/1994Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.
2/5/1992Ajit Singh elected 'real J.D.' President.
8/18/1923Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi.
2/18/1911Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.