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Historical Event on 4/4/1987
Agney, famous Hindi litterateur and Gyanpeeth Award winning poet, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/4/1987 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
9/29/1708 | British East India Company and New East India company merged. |
2/23/1998 | BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district. |
2/13/1879 | Sarojini Naidu ""Nightingale of India"", was born at Hyderabad. She was the first Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress and took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931. |
11/12/2000 | Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. |
1/5/1869 | Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni, famous Kannad novelist 'Galagnath', was born. |
1/28/1933 | India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge. |
5/18/1995 | Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act. |
1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
9/21/1746 | French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras. |
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