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Historical Event on 8/8/1972
Olympics open at Munich (26).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/27/1999 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits. |
3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
9/2/1894 | Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born. |
1/1/1903 | Sen also produced the first publicity films of India--""Jaba Kusum Hair Oil'' and ''Edward's Anti-malaria Specific''. He also filmed the celebrations of the Coronation of King Edward VII at Calcutta. |
3/11/1992 | Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father. |
10/23/1898 | Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat. |
11/19/1994 | Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa . |
11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
10/16/1999 | Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99' |
3/11/1903 | Shrinagesh M. M, former General, was born. |
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