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Historical Event on 8/6/1951
Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/7/1986 | Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram. |
2/19/1993 | SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland. |
11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
10/31/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989. |
10/31/1984 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
10/1/1928 | Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born. |
11/2/1972 | B. D. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1977 |
11/15/1999 | Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. |
2/22/1948 | Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born. |
11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
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