On January 1, 2018, Team Vidarbha won their first Ranji Trophy by upsetting seven-time winner Delhi. They defeated Delhi in the final by 9 wickets to earn their maiden Ranji Trophy championship in the 84th season. The final match was placed in the Holkar stadium in the Madhya Pradesh district of Indore.
Related On This Day
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, an Indian physicist, born in 1943.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard found Hewlett-Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California, "the origin of Silicon Valley" in 1939.
Harchand Singh Longowai, an Indian Sikh politician and President of the Akali Dal, was born in 1932.
In the year 1986, Vidya Balan is an Indian actress was born
Orissa province joins India in 1948.
The first spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity was Luna 1 (launched on January 2, 1959).
After a legislation amendment that prompted protests, two women were the first ever to enter India's Sabarimala temple in Kerala State in 2019.
Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India in 1877.
In the year 1975, Sonali Bendre is a model and actress from India was born
In 1903, a grand durbar, or formal celebration, honours King Edward VII's coronation as Emperor of India in Delhi.
Swaraj political party was created in India in 1923, with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru as secretary.
The state of Ajaigarh is handed to the Government of India in 1950.
In the year 1975, In 1940, Eiichiro Oda, a Japanese manga artist, was born in Kumamoto, Japan.
1894 Satyendra Nath Bose was born in Calcutta, British India, and is an Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics).
British forces seize Calcutta, India, in 1757.
In 1954, the Government of India established two civilian honors, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
Nana Patekar, an Indian Bollywood actor, writer, philanthropist, and director, was born in Murud-Janjira, Bombay State, in 1951.
Aung San Suu Kyi married novelist Michael Aris in 1972.