Los Angeles Indian Community - LAIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/1/2000

Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1997India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.
8/19/1993Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune.
8/19/1993Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
7/22/1992Security scam: Planning Commission member V. Krishnamurthy resigns.
12/15/1995Rajya Sabha approves extension of President's rule in J & K for a further period of 6 months and also passes Government resolution approving imposition of President's rule in UP.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
6/5/1973Madhav Sadashiv Golvalkar, politician and RSS chief, passed away.
11/1/1945Narendra Dabholkar, blind faith eradicator (Andhashradhha Nirmulak), was born.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.