|
|
Historical Event on 5/11/1985
Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1997 | Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta. |
| 8/6/1989 | Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour. |
| 3/12/1996 | Election Commission rejects claim by Indira Congress as the real Congress. The 'hand' symbol will remain with Indian National Congress headed by PVN Rao. |
| 2/13/1999 | The 5th National Games were inaugurated by President K.R. Narayanan in Imphal. |
| 8/26/1874 | Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born. |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/23/1911 | Rappal Sangmeshwar Krishnan, noted physics expert of India, was born. |
| 3/31/1997 | The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points. |
| 11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
