|
|
Historical Event on 12/24/2000
Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1957 | Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 2/2/1921 | Mukundrao Kirloskar was born. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 8/12/1946 | Viceroy announces invitation to Congress to form provisional Government. |
| 8/12/1946 | Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death. |
| 1/14/1995 | The 5th Pay Commission suggests trimming of bureaucracy. |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 10/21/1947 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad. |
| 5/1/2000 | Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
| 5/1/2000 | Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India . |
|
![]()
|
|
|
