|
|
Historical Event on 9/4/1993
Lawyers all over the country decide to abolish addresses like 'My Lord', 'Your Lordship' and replace them with 'Sir', 'Your Honour,' etc.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/27/2000 | After more than two-and-a-half-years, a Delhi court resumes trial in the St. Kitts forgery case following Delhi High Court's order upholding the lower court's verdict on framing of charges. |
3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
8/13/1928 | Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament. |
11/11/1924 | SunderLal Munnalal Patwa was born in Kukdeshwar, Distt. Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh). |
|
|
|
|