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Historical Event on 9/25/1954
14 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
8/19/1993 | Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64. |
11/18/1999 | Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir. |
8/2/1987 | Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title. |
10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
7/27/1949 | Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir. |
1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
2/22/1982 | South-South Conference opens in New Delhi. |
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