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


 

Historical Event on 8/13/1988

Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
6/17/1824Bureau of Indian Affairs established.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
11/7/1908N. R. Shede (Annasaheb), litterateur and editor, was born.
12/11/1992UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
9/20/1911Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Auvalkhera, Agra.
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
1/31/1958First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy.