Jacksonville Indian Community - JacksonvilleIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/5/1909

Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1941Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar.
12/20/1757Clauk became Governor of Bengal.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
12/14/1984First MIG 27M aircraft assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. takes off.
11/21/1991R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants.
7/15/1980Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away.
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.