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Historical Event on 7/6/1927
Prabhjot Kaur, great poet and author, was born at Langrayal (Pakistan).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/4/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment. |
2/20/1992 | Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away. |
1/21/1969 | First India built electronic digital computer commissioned. |
7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
9/12/1974 | . C. Yohannan at Teheran, sets record for LJ in 8.07. |
4/10/1919 | Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her. |
2/17/1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away. |
3/21/1934 | Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born. |
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