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Historical Event on 5/11/1999
Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/12/1949 | Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions. |
12/20/1956 | Saint Gadgebaba died. |
3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
2/12/1993 | The baggage rules relaxed further. |
5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
5/24/1956 | Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated. |
9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
10/9/1992 | Sukha and Jinda, assassins of former army chief Gen. A. S. Vaidya, hanged in Pune jail. |
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