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Historical Event on 5/16/1996
Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [techinally till 01-06-1996]), although his ability to govern effectively is in doubt.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/12/1971 | Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died. |
9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
4/5/1991 | Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections. |
11/11/1992 | S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka. |
11/9/1897 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit |
2/15/1945 | Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma. |
2/26/1857 | First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry. |
8/4/1923 | Nagpur University started working. |
4/25/1993 | Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued. |
1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
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