1622
Tulsidas, devotee of God Rama Saint, great poet and writer of Ramayana, died.
1886
Dr. S.Muthulakshmi Reddi, first women M.A.L.A.S, was born.
1933
Gandhiji informed the Government of Bombay of his decision to march from Ahmedabad to Ras with 33 followers to revive Civil Disobedience movement.
1945
On this day in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank within minutes in shark-infested waters. Only 317 of the 1,196 men on board survived. However, the Indianapolis had already completed its major mission: the delivery of key components of the atomic bomb that would be dropped a week later at Hiroshima to Tinian Island in the South Pacific.
1947
The part of Kashmir, North West Frontier Provience (NWFP), was swallowed up by Pakistan. The formality of raising the flag was done in November.
1957
Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India was established through which exporting materials were insured.
1960
Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and ‘Lion of Karnataka’, died. He was a loyal Congress leader.
1965
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become the first president to propose national health insurance, an initiative that was opposed at the time by Congress.
1971
A mid-air collision between a Boeing 727 and a fighter jet in Japan killed 162 people on this day in 1971. The military plane was flying without radar.
1975
Thirty-five nations, called together by the United States and the Soviet Union, began a summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland, to discuss some pressing international issues. The meeting temporarily revived the spirit of detente between the United States and Russia.
1987
India says it will revive the ‘Agni‘ IRBM programe.
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