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Historical Event on 7/3/1987
The Festival of India in the USSR, to be inaugurated, is the largest cultural manifestation to be held by our country.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/7/1988 | N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front. |
5/11/1991 | Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar. |
1/26/1929 | Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence. |
5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
2/27/1912 | Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born. |
7/1/1879 | Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department. |
8/17/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka. |
7/29/1802 | Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army. |
12/25/1954 | Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died. |
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. |
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