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Historical Event on 2/5/1981
Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
7/13/1912 | Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P. |
8/11/1954 | Madireddy Venkateshwar Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79), was born in Secunderabad. |
7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
5/1/1992 | C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
2/25/1920 | Balraj Madhok was born. |
6/24/1869 | Hari Chapekar Damodar was born virtually. He was the first terrorist of India. |
10/27/1997 | UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members. |
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'. |
5/12/1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
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