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Historical Event on 5/5/1989
Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1909 | Vishnu Dey, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 6/15/1659 | Aurangzeb was declared as the Emperor of India at Red Fort Delhi. |
| 9/26/1793 | Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist and social worker, was born in Kona village, 24 Parganas (north), West Bengal. |
| 3/19/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
| 11/9/1990 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
| 12/22/1843 | Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, accepted Brahmo religion at the hands of Ramchandra Vidyabagish. |
| 12/22/1843 | Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
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