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Historical Event on 11/3/1984
3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/22/1999 | Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur. |
1/7/1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born. |
3/27/1997 | South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit. |
10/3/1957 | Republican Party of India established. |
5/14/1999 | Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal. |
12/26/1925 | Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born. |
6/27/1838 | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), famous novelist, ""the father of modern Indian fiction"" and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', was borm at Katalpara near Naihati, West Bengal. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'. He was among the first two Bengalee Graduates. |
1/22/1963 | The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun. |
5/12/1992 | Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest. |
6/19/1997 | Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir. |
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