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Historical Event on 12/6/1995
Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/22/1873 | Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of song 'Sare Jahanse Achha', was born. |
8/6/1993 | Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat. |
6/21/1994 | The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group. |
9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
6/21/1906 | Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away. |
3/27/1992 | India signs Friendship Treaty with Ukraine. |
7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
2/5/1630 | Har Rai, Sikh Guru, was born. |
11/30/1759 | Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk. |
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