Seattle Indian Community - DesiEventsOnline.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/28/2000

The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1998Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda.
8/4/1967World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
11/30/1998Sonia Gandhi names Ashok Ghelot and Sheila Dixit as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Delhi respectively.
4/8/1991Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
12/31/1998Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal.
12/9/1999BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.
9/30/1881Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
2/17/1991Krishnabai Mote, famous author and social worker, passed away.