|
|
Historical Event on 2/8/1936
Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1999 | The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa. |
| 6/1/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 1/23/1897 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War. |
| 12/24/1894 | The first medical conference was held in Calcutta. |
| 7/3/1941 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal), was born. |
| 10/26/1947 | After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously. |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 12/5/1959 | K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
