Horoscope	Baby Names	Festivals
Articles	Pictures	Videos
India News	Indian Food	Drivers License Information
Hot Deals	Immigration	Health & Lifestyle
Mortgage Calculator	Jobs	Blogs
Advertise	Currency Convertor	Shop Amazon

Houston Indian Community - HoustonIndian.net

HOME

BUSINESS PAGES

RECIPES

Quick Links

Festivals

Select City

Historical Event on 12/17/1998
Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1972	Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory.
4/11/1931	Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai.
6/6/1997	U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
8/26/1984	An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
10/16/1990	Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.
9/4/1983	INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
5/21/1996	General Election (11th) of India ended.
6/11/1995	PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.
4/6/1966	Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone).
10/1/1886	Baluchisthan became a part of India.

Explore

Contribute Articles

Contribute Videos

Contribute Recipes

Contribute Pictures

HoustonIndian.net is operated under IndianLoop.com network (Broadlink, LLC site) and is a Trademark of BroadLink, LLC. Any unauthorized use of these Trademarks is strictly prohibited.
All the content on this site is protected under the copyright law. No content can be reproduced in any form without the written consent of BroadLink, LLC.

Select City

Historical Event on 12/17/1998 Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.

Historical Event on 12/17/1998
Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.