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Historical Event on 6/12/1960
783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/26/1928 | R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 7/20/1898 | Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat. |
| 6/16/1946 | Britain invites Indian leaders to set up an interim govt at London. |
| 3/28/1994 | G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi. |
| 7/1/1997 | Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta. |
| 3/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 11/16/1958 | India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow. |
| 11/16/1958 | Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur. |
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