New Jersey Indian Community - NewJerseyIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 10/5/1868

Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/3/1945Hurricane-equipped squadrons played a major role in the Arakan offensive which began in December 1944, disrupting the enemy's lines of communication and constantly harrying the Japanese forces until victory was achieved with the re-occupation of Rangoon.
3/4/1924Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
1/2/1757After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives.
8/25/1965Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi.
8/5/1905Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born.
10/29/1997P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
6/4/1994Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.
7/15/1969Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. After retirement he was appointed as the Ambassador in Switzerland.