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Historical Event on 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1998 | Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 8/1/1927 | Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born. |
| 6/6/1982 | Devraj Ars, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away. |
| 8/1/1957 | National Book Trust inaugurated. |
| 10/15/1972 | Nirmalkumar Bose, great Indian human scientist, died. |
| 12/27/1962 | India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir. |
| 8/6/1962 | Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes. |
| 3/21/1971 | Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown. |
| 4/13/1919 | Jallianwala Baug massacre. The great Indian tragedy occured in Amritsar which claimed 389 lives and wounded 1,516 activitists fighting for Indian independence. Early in 1919, the Rowlatt Act (Black Act) was passed. This authorized the Government to imprison any person without any trial and conviction in a court of law. This furious act was under the guidence of cruel Brigedier General R. E. H. Dyer and his 50 men troop. Michael O' Dwyer was then the Governor of Punjab who naturally defended the action. This day is observed as Jallianwala Baug Day. |
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