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Historical Event on 7/20/1986
India withdraws from Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/2/1953 | Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war. |
11/18/1839 | P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur. |
6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
1/22/1922 | Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
3/4/1996 | King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
8/10/1982 | Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated. |
10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
7/22/1992 | Security scam: Planning Commission member V. Krishnamurthy resigns. |
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