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Historical Event on 6/5/1998
Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/23/1980 | Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship. |
5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
12/24/1987 | Dr. M.G.Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, died. He was 70 yrs. He was posthumously awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the President of India. (17-1-90). |
1/27/1967 | Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune. |
8/27/1910 | Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia. |
8/27/1910 | Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj. |
5/1/1909 | Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers. |
11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
12/25/1991 | Ajit Singh expelled from the JD. |
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