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Historical Event on 11/14/1967
Kanakaiya Nayudu Colonel Cottari , cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), passed away at Indore.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
4/14/1989 | Ranjan Roy, captain of Indian Navy, and his wife Rupali Roy started off in a Maruti car. |
6/5/1981 | Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88. |
4/6/1997 | Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference. |
9/23/1967 | P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born. |
8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
12/19/1994 | K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away. |
11/10/1968 | Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati. |
5/4/1992 | India and Russia sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation. |
6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
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