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Historical Event on 12/3/1991
Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
1/20/1879 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born. |
6/8/1929 | Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore. |
8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
2/20/1982 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
8/22/1994 | Two dozen Mahar soldiers were ambushed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. Seven, including a JCO, lost their lives. |
3/9/1993 | 14 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra . |
7/21/1934 | Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune. |
8/9/1952 | New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures. |
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