|
|
Historical Event on 7/29/1980
India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/22/1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 5/9/1992 | Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 2/14/1952 | Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj was born in Ambala Cantt. (Haryana). |
| 7/22/1991 | New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament. |
| 1/26/1965 | Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India. |
| 9/19/2000 | Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
