|
|
Historical Event on 5/21/1990
PM V. P. Singh clears the Rs. 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar Project over the river Narmada.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
| 9/29/1836 | Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras |
| 4/26/1920 | Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 5/13/1952 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry. |
| 8/25/1969 | Vivek Upendra Krishna Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90), was born in Delhi. |
| 5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
| 5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 2/7/1975 | Banke Bihar, mystery and religious story writer, passed away. |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 3/14/1910 | Dalai Lama makes a rare state visit to the Viceroy of Calcutta. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
