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Historical Event on 6/7/1955
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/20/1991 | 6.1-7.1 earthquake in uttar Kashi and three northern districts of UP in the Himalayan foothills kills more than 1,600 people. |
3/25/1971 | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras. |
7/19/1938 | Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra. |
5/10/1985 | P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
10/30/1991 | Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away. |
8/29/1947 | A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab. |
12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
10/30/1994 | Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died. |
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