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Historical Event on 7/8/1996
T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/20/1989 | Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India. |
9/26/1931 | At Lancashire, Gandhi sees textile workers hurt by Indian boycott but says home spinning must go on. |
4/6/1919 | Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike. |
9/29/2000 | A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt. |
3/29/1932 | Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka. |
7/12/1947 | Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad. |
6/2/1955 | A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
2/14/1996 | President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation. |
7/7/1999 | M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad. |
5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
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