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Historical Event on 3/31/1867
Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/16/1992 | Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the honorary Oscar by a three-member Oscar committee at a Calcutta nursing home. |
1/9/1904 | Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab . |
7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
11/18/1948 | Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna. |
4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
2/3/1900 | Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri, one of the founders of Organic Chemistry in India, was born at Kulittalai in Tamil Nadu. |
1/18/1998 | India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka. |
9/23/1903 | Yusuf Meherali, freedom fighter and socialist, was born. |
2/2/1921 | Mukundrao Kirloskar was born. |
1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
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