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Historical Event on 10/3/1890
Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/9/1996 | J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns. |
12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
1/31/1946 | Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), was born in Calcutta. |
10/2/2000 | Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey. |
3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
8/1/1920 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader, died at Bombay. |
10/18/2000 | Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, announces relief for phone users. New links to cost Rs. 2,000 in urban areas and Rs. 500 in rural areas. |
5/25/1997 | Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
2/27/1996 | Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit. |
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