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Historical Event on 2/23/1768
Nizam accepted British supremacy and Smith Col. signed peace treaty with the Nizam.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
8/17/1911 | Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born. |
5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
12/10/1761 | Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10). |
11/20/1993 | RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd. |
11/18/1937 | Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi. |
7/24/1991 | Union budget imposes all-round price hike. |
6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
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