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Historical Event on 11/12/1997
India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1932 | Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started. |
| 4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
| 6/28/1921 | Sahityaratna P. V. Narsingh Rao, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 7/15/1987 | Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V. C. Shukla, Arif Mohammed Khan and Arun Nehru from Congress for anti-party activities. |
| 2/6/1985 | Vikram Kumar, Soccer(Football) player, was born. |
| 3/29/1979 | Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
| 1/15/1988 | Narendra Hirwani makes a world record by capturing 16 West Indies wickets on Test debut at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras. |
| 8/1/1920 | Under the leadership of Gandhi, the non-cooperation movement was launched against Lord Chelmsford. ""Firmness in truth,"" was his strategy of noncooperation and non-violence against India's Christian British rulers. Later, he resolved to wear only 'dhoti' to preserve homespun cotton and simplicity, followed with grassroots agitation. This began with renunciation of honorary titles like 'Sir' given by the British. Thereafter, it was followed by the boycott of legislatures, elections and other Government works. Foreign clothes were burnt and Khadi became a symbol of freedom. The movement was a great success despite firing and arrests. By the end of 1921, all important national leaders, except Gandhi, were in jail, along with 3000 others. However, in February 1922, at Chaurichaura, Uttar Pradesh, violence erupted and Gandhi called off the movement. He was imprisoned and the movement was over. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 8/17/1911 | Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born. |
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