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Historical Event on 9/14/1893
Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
6/9/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India ends. |
7/10/1999 | The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case. |
6/6/1891 | Vanktesh Iyengar Masti, famous Kannad poet, story writer, novelist, playwright and critic, was born. |
4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
4/30/1992 | Over 7 years after the gas disaster, a Bhopal court orders attachment of Carbide properties in India. |
1/27/1927 | Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune. |
5/30/1952 | S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955. |
1/31/1998 | D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98). |
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