Portland Indian Community - PortlandIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 11/3/1984

3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
2/18/1975Yogesh Shyam, soccer(Football) player, was born.
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
6/22/1975National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.
7/27/1928Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP).
11/3/1929Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.
9/13/2000Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.
11/5/1951Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.