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Historical Event on 3/27/1990
21 people die as a bus accidentally touched a high voltage wire in Karagpur India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/22/1998 | India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region. |
12/15/1991 | Satyajit Ray, film maestro, awarded Special Oscar for his lifetime achievement. |
6/30/1928 | Kalyanji, famous music director, was born. |
10/2/1904 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh. |
5/18/1995 | Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act. |
4/8/1946 | HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island. |
12/13/1999 | Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999. |
12/13/1999 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
8/14/1987 | A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka. |
10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
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