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Historical Event on 3/5/1992
Sunder, comedy actor, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/3/1984 | Ravindra Mhatre, great Indian diplomat who was kidnapped in England, was murdered. |
8/1/1927 | Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born. |
2/22/1977 | Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled. |
6/12/1996 | India's new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda wins vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha and will rule as head of the United Front Coalition. |
8/5/2000 | Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi. |
7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
6/22/1982 | 19 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay. |
9/21/1933 | Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away. |
8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
6/13/1996 | Govt. extends for another 2 years the ban imposed on LTTE w.e.f. 14/6/1996 under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. |
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