|
|
Historical Event on 6/20/1756
A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/19/1911 | Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
| 10/6/1985 | P.T. Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra . |
| 2/8/1985 | P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986. |
| 8/8/1990 | Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died. |
| 6/5/1994 | India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 4/1/1992 | The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
