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Historical Event on 9/30/1997
Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
8/28/1928 | Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka. |
8/28/1928 | Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat. |
11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
2/3/1986 | Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi. |
11/19/1835 | Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. |
1/5/1995 | PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai. |
5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
10/23/1999 | V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case. |
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