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Historical Event on 1/1/1955

Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1981Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
9/29/1992Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1)
2/7/1931Satpal Kapur, Congress leader, was born.
3/18/1944Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.
8/7/1925Monkombu 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.
8/7/1988N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
1/2/1960Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87), was born in Meerut.
6/17/1993K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died.
6/20/1946Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state.