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Historical Event on 10/13/1679
More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/23/1915 | Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist, was born. |
12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
9/25/1990 | Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London. |
4/20/1991 | Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away. |
3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
10/24/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics. |
2/7/1992 | Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy. |
10/10/1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
12/8/1999 | The Opposition attacks Prime Minister Vajpayee for ""withholding'' information on ministers' resignation. |
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