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Historical Event on 9/13/1997
Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/1/1984 | Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101. |
5/14/1992 | LTTE banned in India. |
8/14/1968 | Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay. |
5/29/1967 | First blowdown of the 4 ft trisonic tunnel; the tunnel with all auxiliary facilities such as compressor system, electrical sub-station, design office and model fabrication shop is formally set up and commissioned by National Aeronautical Laboratory. |
6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
8/28/1997 | Jain Commission, chaired by Justice M.C. Jain, submits interim report on Rajiv Gandhi assassination. |
9/26/1956 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88. |
5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
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