Wilmington, Dover, Newark Indian Community - DEIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/8/1970

Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
2/12/1985Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
10/26/1996CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
12/12/2000A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001.
4/18/1926Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
2/19/200018 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai.
8/10/1755Narayanrao Peshwa was born.