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Historical Event on 1/9/1916
Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/4/1989 | Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died. |
4/23/1929 | Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay. |
7/25/1986 | Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India. |
9/15/1860 | M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too. |
8/3/1930 | Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died. |
3/22/1933 | M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka. |
1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
8/15/1992 | Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan. |
10/31/1997 | Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi. |
1/23/1978 | The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions. |
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