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Historical Event on 10/21/1950
China invades Tibet.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/4/1935 | Dalip Kaur Tiwana, great educationist and writer, was born in Ribbon village, Punjab. |
8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
2/19/1993 | SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland. |
3/20/1994 | Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay. |
10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
7/22/1918 | During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force. |
5/4/1993 | Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to conquer the Everest twice. |
9/8/1965 | Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division. |
5/16/1996 | Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [techinally till 01-06-1996]), although his ability to govern effectively is in doubt. |
7/11/1997 | Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai. |
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