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Find out what happened on 31th December in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 31th December
Prabhu Ganesan (born December 31, 1956) is a Tamil film actor and producer. He is the son of veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan.His son Vikram Prabhu is also a budding actor. After making his debut in the film Sangili in 1982, he has acted in over 150 films. Prabhu Ganesan has appeared alongside other actors like Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, and his father Sivaji Ganesan in many hit films
Lakshmi Tatama is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria district, Bihar, having “4 arms and 4 legs.” She was actually one of a pair of ischiopagus conjoined twins where one twin was headless due to its head atrophying and chest underdeveloping in the womb, causing an appearance of one child with four arms and four legs
Major General John Dutton (Johnny) Frost CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (31 December 1912 – 21 May 1993) was a British airborne officer best known for being the leader of the small group of airborne forces that actually got to Arnhem bridge during the Battle of Arnhem
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan pronunciation (help·info) (born December 31, 1965, Madras), popularly known as Siva and LS, is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right arm leg-spinner. He is now a commentator. Born in a Brahmin Iyer family, Siva first drew attention as a 12 year old claiming 7 for 2 in a Madras inter-schools championship game. At fifteen
Shrilal Shukla was a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He worked as a Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, later inducted into the IAS. He has written over 25 books, including Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj
Death anniversaries on 31th December :
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 in the city of Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat in western India
Lakshmi Tatama is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria district, Bihar, having “4 arms and 4 legs.” She was actually one of a pair of ischiopagus conjoined twins where one twin was headless due to its head atrophying and chest underdeveloping in the womb, causing an appearance of one child with four arms and four legs
Eminent educationist, thinker, freedom fighter and a creative writer, born as Nrusinhprasad Kalidas Bhatt, at Bhavnagar on 11 November 1882, later known as Nanabhai Bhatt, Nanabhai was a contemporary and one of the famous trinity of Bhavnagar with Gijubhai Badheka and Harbhai Trivedi who have left great inspiration and vision in the fields of innovative education
T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan , was a Tamil, writer, translator, journalist and literary critic from Tamil Nadu, India. He is also known as T. M. C. Ragunathan, Tho. Mu. Si. Ragunathan or by his Tamil initials as Tho. Mu. Si. Ragunathan was born in Tirunelveli in 1923
Dr Rafiq Hussain was an Urdu writer, poet and critic from India. Dr Rafiq Husain s/o Syed Mohammed Taqi was born into an aristocratic family in Baragaon, Jalalpur, Ambedkar Nagar district, previously known as Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
Notable Events:
1600 Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule.
1600 Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives — it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
1706 Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674.
1738 Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born
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