|
|
Historical Event on 10/9/1968
Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/21/1930 | Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 2/15/1998 | Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open. |
| 4/2/1997 | A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property. |
| 2/2/1989 | France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta. |
| 1/8/1999 | Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi. |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
