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Historical Event on 11/05/1556
Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 8/9/1902 | King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast. |
| 1/31/1998 | D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98). |
| 1/7/1928 | Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born. |
| 9/1/1798 | England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India. |
| 1/3/1945 | No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 11/18/1911 | Free primary school education is introduced. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
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