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Historical Event on 6/20/1756
A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
9/15/1967 | Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died. |
10/1/1909 | Gandhiji wrote to Tolstoy regarding Passive Resistance movement. |
4/21/1992 | UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visits New Delhi. |
8/16/1965 | Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts. |
3/7/1961 | Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959. |
6/16/1993 | Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded. |
7/30/1947 | The part of Kashmir, North West Frontier Provience (NWFP), was swallowed up by Pakistan. The formality of raising the flag being done in November. |
10/29/1992 | Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem. |
7/14/1923 | Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan). |
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