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Historical Event on 12/27/1990
DMK led Pondicherry ministry, headed by D. Ramachandran, resigns following loss of majority.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/28/1986 | Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'. |
1/6/1999 | Shiv Sena activists dug up the Kotla pitch in Delhi with a view to prevent the Indo-Pakistan first Test which was to commence from Jan. 28. |
4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
10/17/1979 | Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
10/25/1995 | Narsimha Rao, PM, addresses the 50th anniversary session of the UN. |
4/22/1994 | Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away. |
2/14/1970 | Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization. |
1/18/1996 | N. T. Rama Rao, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh (during 1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), passed away at Hydrabad. |
5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
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