Discover what happened in India on this day
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned. Finance Minister announces nationalisation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after Sept 30, 1948.
Birju Maharaj, famous Kathak Dancer "Guru", was born.
Narayan Dattatreya Sane, two test cricket umpire 1959-60, left-hand opening batsman and fast bowler, was born at Vidarbha.
Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born.
Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur.
Dr. Satnarayan Nathulal Jatiya was born in Jawad, Distt. Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh).
Banka Mahar, 'bhagwatbhakt', passed away by taking Samadhi.
National Renewal Fund for industries set up.
An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.
India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF.
Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted "Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana" in 1924.
India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker "Jawaharlal Nehru" commenced its services for the Nation.
Madhusudan Das "Utkal Gourab", passed away. He was described as a great Indian patriot, who wore himself out is giving shape and reality to various nation-building schemes. He wrote a number of articles and poems both in Oriya, English and Bengali to fill people with enthusiasm and patriotism. He was the first non-official Vice Chairman and then Chairman of Cuttack District Board.
New Press Censorship bill announced; govt. say repressive measures necessary to halt unrest.