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


 

Historical Event on 11/6/1998

Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
6/1/1947Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
5/10/1901Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"".
6/8/1999ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
2/26/1998Kalyan Singh wins the ''composite floor test'' in the Assembly, securing 225 votes against the 196 got by Jagadambika Pal.
9/2/1970Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.
7/10/1984White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government.
8/18/1958Dr.Bhagwandas, famous Congress leader and theosophist, died.