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Historical Event on 8/11/2000
Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
10/15/2000 | Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand |
12/11/1998 | Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs. |
4/17/1998 | BJP Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta retains his Lok Sabha seat in the Udhampur-Doda-Kathna constituency defeating National Conference's Rajinder Kumar Chib by over 50,000 votes. |
2/12/1928 | Lalit Mohan Sharma, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
10/2/1998 | Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997. |
12/4/1910 | Amar Singh Ladha Nakum, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties), was born at Rajkot. |
1/28/1951 | Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council. |
8/21/1997 | Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people. |
1/1/1989 | The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad. |
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