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


 

Historical Event on 11/22/1968

Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/2000Bomb blasts rock churches in three states (A.P, Karnataka and Goa).
3/7/1952Parmahansa Yogananda, great saint, social reformer and writer, died at Los Angles.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
10/4/1953India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.
5/31/1928Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975).
1/11/1858Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.
2/15/1992Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away.
9/19/1996India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.
8/25/1998Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe.
7/25/1970Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away.