Houston Indian Community - HoustonIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 10/11/1996

Supreme Court ruling on change of venue of Rao's trial.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
1/2/1960Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87), was born in Meerut.
11/14/1955Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
6/27/1997Surendra Pratap Singh, famous Journalist and former chief editor of Nav Bharat Times Group, died ]at Delhi.
9/12/1627Ibrahim Adilshah died.
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
5/29/1991P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I).
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
3/26/1990Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns.
6/26/1997India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention.