Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland Indian Community - washingtondcIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 05/09/1338

Saint Chokhoba passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
05/09/1338Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.
12/6/1992300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition.
3/26/1918Vanavihari B.N. Sundara Rao, great author and journalist, was born at Varthur, Bangalore.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
8/3/1991About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.
4/24/1994S. L. Kirloskar, 91, industrial magnate, passed away in Pune.
10/25/1989P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad.
11/6/1951Judge M. Patanjali Sastri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 03/01/1954.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.