1901- December 10: First Nobel Prizes awarded. 1904- U.S. began construction of the Panama Canal 1905- Albert Einstein’s formulation of special relativity 1907- Bakelite, the world’s first fully synthetic plastic, invented in New York by Leo Baekeland, who coins the term “plastics”….
1960: Gujarat State and Maharashtra State are formed from the State of Bombay as laid down by the States Reorganisation Act. 1 May is declared as ‘Maharashtra Divas’, i.e., Maharashtra Day Yashwantrao Chavan took oath as the 1st Chief Minister…
1971 3–16 December Third war with Pakistan, culminating in the creation of Bangladesh Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in Orissa State in India, kills 10,000. 16 December – Victory Day…
Operation Barga was a land reform movement, throughout rural West Bengal for recording the names of sharecroppers (bargadars) while avoiding the time-consuming method of recording through the settlement machinery. It bestowed on the bargadars, the legal protection against eviction by the landlords…
