Dallas Indian Community - DallasIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/7/1859

The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1855East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened.
2/1/1855Mughals capture Ahmednagar.
2/18/1997Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati.
6/9/1997At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok.
4/18/1898Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.
2/24/1994Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
12/7/1979First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
11/30/1920N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.