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Historical Event on 6/3/1901
Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
7/25/2000 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena Chief, courts arrest and the court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Boiwada, B. P. Kamble dismisses the case because of six-year delay in pursuing it after the FIR. |
10/5/1907 | British MP Keir Hardie reported fomenting rebellion in India. |
10/28/1996 | Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi. |
1/24/1966 | Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government. |
5/15/1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
12/12/1905 | Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
12/14/1990 | Vijay Karan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 01/06/92). |
9/18/1967 | English was adopted the official language of Nagaland . |
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