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Historical Event on 12/5/1933
Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
1/7/1994 | Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC. |
5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
8/6/1932 | Ramsay McDonald came out with his 'Communal Award' to fix seats for the various communities in the provincial legislatures. |
1/4/1994 | Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56. |
6/6/1992 | Ordinance issued to attach the properties of persons involved in the security scam. |
1/21/1981 | Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, passed away. |
10/22/1999 | The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'. |
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