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Historical Event on 6/5/1995
Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/11/1911 | Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born. |
6/23/1997 | Acharya Tulsi, the founder of Terapanthi sector in Jainism, died. (20-10-98). |
1/15/1899 | Musaffir, Giani Gurmukh Singh, writer and politician, was born at Udhwal (Pakistan). |
8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
3/6/1915 | Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan. |
3/1/2000 | P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament. |
4/20/1971 | Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
2/13/1994 | Dr. Krishnaprasad Mishra, 'Sahitya Academy Award' winner, Oria novelist and short story writer, passed away. |
3/3/1952 | The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections. |
3/17/1920 | Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh. |
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