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Historical Event on 6/26/1955
Poland and India affirm Panchsheel.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
6/3/1844 | Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born. |
6/13/1997 | At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi. |
11/13/1998 | Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final. |
7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
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