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Historical Event on 9/18/1995
Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/17/1996 | All 47 ministers in Madhya Pradesh submit resignations to CM Digvijay Singh. |
5/13/1997 | Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission. |
6/19/2000 | Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry. |
10/11/1941 | Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born. |
6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
4/5/1614 | Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. |
3/4/1925 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away. |
6/1/1993 | Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated. |
10/12/1976 | Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died. |
10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
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