Pittsburgh Indian Community - PittsburghIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/24/1966

Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/7/1887Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh.
7/7/1901J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta.
12/7/1856First Hindu widow married officially.
1/27/1967Delimitation Agreement for Warfare in space was signed by 60 nations in United Nation.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
8/8/1905Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born.
4/12/1978India's first double decker train was started between Victoria Terminus (CST) and Pune which beared the name as ""Janta Express"", which is now known under the name of Shivaji's fort as ""Singhgarh Express"".
11/21/1899Harekrushna Mahtab, freedom fighter, politician, industrialist and writer, was born at Agarpara district Balasore, Orissa.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.