This Day in "History"

February 27
Significant Events
1900 In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906
1957 Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals
1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US
2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
 
March 6
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
1820 The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1836 After fighting for 13 days, the Alamo falls.
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
1857 The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens.
1860 While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.
1862 The USS Monitor left New York with a crew of 63, seven officers and 56 seamen.
1884 Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
1888 Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father.
1899 Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman's discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.
1901 A would-be assassin tries to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
1914 German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania.
1916 The Allies recapture Fort Douaumont in France during the Battle of Verdun.
1928 A Communist attack on Beijing results in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow.
1939 In Spain, Jose Miaja takes over Madrid government after a military coup and vows to seek "peace with honor."
1943 British RAF fliers bomb Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany.
1945 Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges' First Army.
1947 Winston Churchill opposes the withdrawal of troops from India.
1948 During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agree to internationalize the Ruhr region.
 
16-March-1527 Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra.
16-March-1556 Amarsingh, Rajput king of Mewar, was born.
16-March-1599 Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born.
16-March-1832 Sarfoji Bhosle, King of Tanjawar, passed away.
16-March-1860 Dr. W.M. Haffkine, great scientist, bacteriologist and professor, was born at Odessa in Russia.
16-March-1877 Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous poet, Gujarati litterateur and Headmaster, was born.
16-March-1880 Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born.
16-March-1901 Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
16-March-1902 A. Appadorai, educationist and author, was born at Angadipuram, Kerala.
16-March-1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi sr, England & India), was born in Pataudi, Punjab.
16-March-1912 Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.
16-March-1924 Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away.
16-March-1928 C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.
16-March-1939 Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
16-March-1945 Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.
16-March-1946 India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.
16-March-1946 Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur Darbar, passed away.
16-March-1966 Judge Amal Kumar Sarkar became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 29/06/1966.
16-March-1977 Sixth General Election of India begins.
16-March-1986 Internationally wanted criminal Charles Sobharaj and 6 other prisoners escape from Tihar Jail.
16-March-1992 Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the honorary Oscar by a three-member Oscar committee at a Calcutta nursing home.
16-March-1993 Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
16-March-1993 Central government introduces pension scheme for 170 million EPF subscribers.
16-March-1995 K. Karunakaran resigns as CM of Kerala; Finance Minister presents Central Budget.
16-March-1995 World's best 7th wkt stand of 461 runs by Bhupinder Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.
16-March-1997 The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.
16-March-1997 Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.
16-March-1998 Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
16-March-1999 Amarjeet Kaypee of Haryana, during an innings of 148 against Madhya Pradesh in the super-league match at Rajnandgaon, overtook Ashok Malhotra's 7,274 runs and became the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy.
16-March-1999 The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
16-March-2000 Rabri Devi, Bihar Chief Minister, wins trust vote.
 
18-March-1896 Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.
18-March-1915 British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people.
18-March-1916 Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
18-March-1919 Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people.
18-March-1922 Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their ca
18-March-1924 Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra.
18-March-1938 Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc.
18-March-1944 Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.
18-March-1944 Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India.
18-March-1948 Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
18-March-1948 Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
18-March-1953 Backward Classes Commission inaugurated.
18-March-1972 First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi.
18-March-1974 Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away.
18-March-1990 Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation.
18-March-1991 West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
18-March-1992 Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
18-March-1996 President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
18-March-1997 Indo-Bangladesh friendship treaty, signed 25 years ago, expires.
18-March-1998 A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code.
 
22-March-1709 It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.
22-March-1739 Nadir Shah entered Delhi. He gave the signal to one of his soldiers from Sunheri mosque.
22-March-1793 Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
22-March-1885 Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
22-March-1893 Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born.
22-March-1902 Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
22-March-1906 Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born.
22-March-1907 Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliam
22-March-1914 M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura.
22-March-1915 Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born.
22-March-1932 Indian Muslims break with Great Britain.
22-March-1933 M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
22-March-1938 IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
22-March-1942 Both Congress and Muslim League refused Cripps Mission offer. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution. Cripps Commission came to India which was preceded by Sir Stephard Crips to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.
22-March-1947 India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
22-March-1949 SSC Examination system started.
22-March-1957 National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was ""Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.
22-March-1961 Jual Teria Dilga Oram was born in Kendudihi, Distt. Sundargarh (Orissa).
22-March-1963 World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
22-March-1964 200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
22-March-1969 The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
22-March-1971 Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.
22-March-1977 Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India.
22-March-1977 Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha.
22-March-1977 Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.
22-March-1991 Chautala sworn in as Haryana CM.
22-March-1991 President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
22-March-1993 The Lok Sabha passes the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 1993 and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill, 1993.
22-March-1996 Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').
22-March-1997 Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala.
22-March-1999 57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
22-March-1999 Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
22-March-2000 INSAT-3B launched.
22-March-2000 India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
22-March-2000 P.Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry
 
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