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Historical Event on 4/14/1963
Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/3/1948 | Surendra Pratap Singh, famous journalist and chief editor of Navbharat Times, was born. |
3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
7/28/1989 | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law. |
9/2/1947 | Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified. |
4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
7/25/2000 | P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi. |
5/21/1998 | India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. |
8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
9/21/1994 | Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
6/5/1984 | Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab. |
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