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Historical Event on 2/11/1996
Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/22/1952 | Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died. |
9/20/1996 | Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress. |
4/5/1993 | The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections. |
1/29/1975 | West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2. |
10/23/1997 | I.K. Gujral, PM, leaves for Edinburgh to attend Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting. |
2/22/1946 | Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day. |
6/5/1989 | Missile `Trishul' tested successfully. |
5/12/1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
4/8/1998 | India enters into a historical partnership with France with the formal launch of a joint programme for restoring and protecting the Taj Mahal. |
8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
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