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


 

Historical Event on 5/20/1878

Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/11/1998V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
2/25/1844Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born.
3/6/1961India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
12/12/1901Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December.
9/14/1992Three days of heavy rains cause flooding in northern India and Pakistan claiming 2,500 lives.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
7/25/1987Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President.