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Historical Event on 4/6/1997
Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/26/1982 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade) freedom fighter, and Gandhin by thought awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'. |
1/10/1993 | 24th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi. |
9/11/1968 | Central Government provides more autonomy to hilly region of Assam. |
7/22/1997 | Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70. |
1/31/1896 | Dattatray Ramchandra Bendre, Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award winner and Kannad poet, was born. |
8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
9/26/1979 | Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal. |
2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
9/4/1962 | Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda. |
8/21/1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
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